Construction Post 6: Reflections on Edit Week 2

I feel like the hard work we put in as a group in edit week 1 left us in good stead to have a highly productive, but not overly stressful 2nd edit week. This week we definitely had more of a focus on polishing the look of our sequence through grading the footage, as well as finalising the look of our titles and producing them. This was done largely in collaboration with our teachers and focus group, who were always keen to feedback on our choices of font and colour. A very useful effect in Premiere Pro for colour correction and grading was ProcAmp. This effect had a range of useful pararmeters, such as saturation, brightness and contrast, which we could adjust in order to achieve a precise colour grade. ProcAmp also allowed us to do a split screen of before and after it's effects and thus allowed us to see if we had lost any details from the original shot, that we wanted to keep in the grade. A good example of this, may be some details in shadows or white clothes, that could be easily lost if the saturation or contrast was turned up too far.

Our Post-It Notes

In retrospective, I am very happy with how smooth of an experience week 2 of our edit was, because it very easily could have been made far more difficult had we been less organised. However, if I were to do the project again, I definitely would have changed one part of our edit organisation. As a group, we used post it notes to keep track of changes and what we had to do next, however by the end of our final edit week, we had post it notes everywhere. Therefore I think that if I were to do it again, I would devise some sort of system for storing old post it notes, should we need to reference them, yet keep them out of the way when we are working.