Silver Plate Edit | Development ~ PP

To start the silver plate edit I had the script and shot list in front of me, so I knew what shots I had got during the shoot day and so I knew what order they all had to go in.

I put all of the footage for the silver plate in a folder, and imported those clips into Adobe Premiere Pro. I then roughly placed the shots on the timeline, following the script so I had an idea as to what shot went where. This also meant I could changed my mind about what shot I wanted to use if I didn't think it looked too good. I added estimated where I wanted the different sections of the videos to be and how long I wanted them, and to do this I added in some transitions just so I had a rough idea as to where different clips should end.

I then shot the voice over, and I made the decision to voice over it myself just as it was a lot easier and far less complicated and stressful. I knew how I wanted it to sound, and I think my tone of voice suited the tone and style I was going for within the video.

With the voice over done, I added each of the different sections into the timeline and spaced them out where I wanted them. Obviously I didn't want them exactly after one another, so I listen to each of them and kept re-arranging the gaps to make sure it was where I wanted them. This actually gave me a good sense as what the duration of the video would end up being, and I could make sure my shots all suited around the narrative.

Then once I was happy with the positioning of the voice overs, and most of the shots had been added into the timeline, I moved onto the most time consuming part of the video, which was the animation.
To start I had to create the image on photoshop. I could've used my previous experiment as I liked that image, however the size was too small so I had to start from scratch. However, I still really like the new one and I think it looks more realistic and lighter than the other one which is good.
I then imported the image into After Effects and started the animation.
I wanted it look realistic while also keeping that animation tone and feel to the video. To do this, I decided to add some fish and a few other sea creatures to add to the realism of the scene and I made the move along the screen to make it look like they were swimming in the sea.

Then once I had positioned the fish and other sea creatures, I moved onto the multiple photoshopped images of the plate. During the shoot day I took a photo of the plate for this scene, and I then used the liquify tool to mould the plate into a ball. I started by making it fall into the water and then I got to turn and move around in the sea, bashing into the rocks which will go along with the narrative.

I then faded each of the images of the plate in and out so it looks like time has passed and the plate has reformed into a ball shape. In terms of the duration of this part, I made sure to see how long the voice over is in the Premiere document and made sure it fit in that time space. So when I exported this into premiere it would fit the gap for it.

Once this underwater scene was placed within the sequence, I started to clean up the voice over audio, so it all fit in place and it sounded smooth and natural. I then started to add sound effects, the first one I added was a royal trumpet sound to the Sir Cloudesley description as I thought it made him seem important and it would grab the audience's attention. A few other sound effects I added were Ship noises, to portray them being on a ship during the storm, ocean and waves sound effects, along with storms and thunderstorms sound effects. Before the underwater scene I added a rocks falling sound effect to go along with the narrative, which then fades into the underwater sound effect to bring the animation scene to life. I also added a flash sound effect to split the underwater scene apart from the ending shots of the Court Hall.
I also started on the colour correction. I didn't do all of the clips, but I wanted Rachel and Jeremy to have an idea as to the colour and the tone I was going for. I also hadn't shot all of the river and storm shots yet, so I left a gap free for those shots to be added in.

When I show this rough cut to Rachel and Jeremy, I will mention the gap for the storm shots, while also mentioning the incomplete colour correction, but I don't think either will be too much of an issue.