Digital News Unit: Post-Production - Edit

With Cecily's voice-overs now added into the film; I focussed on the finished presenter pieces that Mike worked on in After Effects:

The green screen shot.

The green screen looks good, despite a slight pixellation on the right side of Jasmin's head the rest looks fine, it has depth and looks real enough. Mike told me he blurred the background a little to create a depth-of-field look.

I like how the logo is in sight to give the set some branding and give it a more official aesthetic.

After adding her lead-ins and the send-off I added in the strap-lines:

There were 5 in total for Jamsin, Jo, Cecily, Chetna and Sheryll. The paint effects look great and really fit in with our brand. Mike did these in After Effects: removing the paint from the paper in the video and then enlarging them before overlaying the text and exporting them to give to me.

With these now in the timeline I set out to polish off the film: firstly working on the audio and making sure it was audible but not blowing out or sounding sharp. I found that I had to raise the new Cecily voice-overs slightly through an audio enhancer in Final Cut Pro as they were a little too quiet and equalise the presenter pieces due to a vacuum cleaner being used outside the room we filmed in. 

Unfortunately I couldn't remove the vacuum completely without drastically distorting Jasmin's voice so I had to reduce it slightly and leave it at that.

Next I added in end credits; they're not long but it gives a closure to the film and adds more aesthetics in terms of professionalism. 

The font also lends itself to our brand and styling, not looking corporate and instead looking friendly and light: also keeping in with our brand.

I feel the edit is coming along very well: there's virtually nothing else left to do other than get music and record a presenter-led teaser for what will be coming up on the show.