Post Production Notes

 Once we had gathered all the necessary footage, we began our post-production work, editing our piece in a linear way, using Final Cut Pro, we had first put all our footage in order onto the editor, and uploaded that, completely empty with no edits at all (Rusher's video), this was to gain some initial feedback to see if people could understand the gist of what we had tried to invoke through the footage, our total duration was around 11 minutes for this version of our short film and we had around 86 different shots which led us rather quickly to cutting it down and keeping only the necessary and key scenes and shots, to accompany our Rusher's video, we had made a table that listed out all the shots that we would include and a brief summary of them, duration, overall sort of figures and facts about each shot that we would need to bear in mind, this had allowed us to easily decide on what to keep and what to get rid of for the next stage of our post-prodction.

We began to actually structure it properly, laying it in the right order, adding a couple transitions between the scenes here and there, overall just trying to get the main skeleton of our short film done and out of the way so we could get to the more 'fun' bits of our editing process. At this point we had additionally cropped and edited down our short film further to fit closer to the time limit of the short film which was stated in the brief. This we exported as our Offline Edit, and gathered a bit more feedback on, however less basic feedback of course, to help us in this stage of our post-production more. 

Following our Offline Edit, we had sufficient feedback to actually start on the more 'proper' editing stage, adding effects, sound effects, music and more, having had the idea to slowly greyscale the short film with each scene gave us an additional way in which we could effectively hint at the mental and emotional degradation of the character, which fit in with our genre pretty well and looked good in the long run plus it helped to also convey some emotions with the character a lot better and clearer somehow, it confuses me too how this conclusion was found, but it worked out and that's what matters.

We decided on a montage as well to start out our final version, something to really make the theme stand out and to properly introduce the short film with its title of "Isolation", it was only befitting to show a couple clips and images of empty public places to fully set the scene and themes in place.