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This is an unaltered screen grab of one of The West’s scenes in Werribee:
As per Paul and Robin’s instructions, our film group begun to play around with the colour grading techniques on Adobe Premiere. From the Video Effects tab of the Effects window, we used Three Way Colour Corrector to achieve the following effects:
Mansion with HDR
Mansion with increased Blue
Mansion with increased Green
on Documentary in the Digital Age looks into documantary film pioneers that have in some way influenced the genre aesthetics and content coverage. Here are two of the filmmakers whose works may be of inspiration to our own film, “The West”;
Sean Langan started out as a print journalist, whom until now hardly recognises himself as a documentarist, rather a “Journalist with a camera”. His films are inspired by the idea of not having to be commercially dependent, but rather to imply the truth through the use of lightweight camera and a “behind enemy lines-like” appeal. Often filmed in volatile and dangerous environments, the story would be told in a diary form as the filmmaker is submerged in the story he is telling himself. In the case of The West, the group would attempt to implement many still wide shots that captures a scene through observation and unobtrusion, instead of forcing a story by following social actors.
Paul Watson is titled the “Father of Reality Television” to the genre that is known as “docusoap”. Although this particular genre is what would be classified as light entertainment, Watson recognises his work as “chat shows” that relies on characters’ interaction with each other as well as their behaviour to events that unfold around them. The story of our film, The West, is reliant on the audial content we garner from various interviews with different individuals; those who are oblivious to the West and those who represent reality. This glorious audio will be dubbed over footage of key areas in the western suburbs, hence must possess material that provides a humane contradiction to pre-conceptions.
on Learning keyboard shortcuts on Adobe Premiere is an integral part to making post-production process easier. Here are some shortcuts that I have never come across before, mostly from Tutor Paul’s words of wisdom:
~ key toggles the full screen of the window that is selected.
Ctrl + ~ keys toggle the full screen of the video playback
HOME key brings progress line to start, END key to last clip (never came across these as I don’t have these keys on my personal computer)
I haven’t had to deal with large amounts of footage before that is consistent with documentary filmmaking;
the M key marks key points of an imported clip, making it easier for the editor to sort through the footage. These marked areas can then be labelled separately to the actual clip title.