Diary 2nd part.docx
- 1. Diary 2nd part ----- Day x: I started off today by first adding in my footage for the interview and cutting down parts of it at the start into a tangible segment. Then I created a legacy title with the Georgia font, white text, a black outline and a black shadow. I then aligned this with the centre of the page using the centre tools on the left-hand side of the screen. After finishing with the customisation of the legacy title, I then added the linear wipe effect to the text, messing around with the key frames till it looked more natural. I then added a black video into my footage, which I dragged into my timeline and then customised the size by undoing the uniform scale and changing the scale width to 0.8 and height to 18, to make it look like a typing cursor (I believe that is the name). I then proceeded to add a keyframes at the beginning and end of the wipe effects duration, onto the cursor. These two frames where to make the cursor seemlike its ahead of the text. I then added a few more keyframes in-between, as it was not perfect, and I wanted it to look normal. After his I proceeded to add keyframes on the opacity fx, with it alternating from 100 percent to 0 percent, with 4 frames in-between each change (could be 5, check the file). After this, I then repeated the same process on some text with my character’s name, which I positioned beneath the other text. I also changed a few other bits, like stroke size and the height + width of the cursor for the typing effect. After this I added an adjustment layer with a gaussian blur effect on it, which I faded out into normal video footage after the text had disappeared. I also added a blur out effect on the text, to make it fade out and smooth. I then added some background music to this segment, which I cut down quite a bit, messed with the audio levels, and then faded it out by using keyframes on the levels segment that would lower the volume. An effect that I used was the reverse speed on a certain clip that I ended up removing, I reversed it as I thought it may look correct if done so. It did not. The was a visual problem with the cursor effects, as every time I would play the video, the smaller cursor would look like the bigger one. I thought that it may be fixed if I added a new black layer into the sequences and did the same things on that. It did not work. I then tried exporting the segment just to check if it was only popping up on Premier Pro, which turned out to be the case. After this I just ignored how it looked on premier. After this I proceeded to edit the bits I wanted from my footage and remove the rest. I then added in some more background music and lowered the volume of it, while also raising the volume of the actual audio, which I would proceed to do multiple more times during the day. After this I added in some text using the same Georgia font as the Legacy titles. I then resized it using key frames, so that it was above a blank gap where the was no footage, stayed in the centre of the screen for a bit, then changed locations to the top left of the screen and stayed there, before fading out. I copied the original text with the effects for every new question, changing the text and approximate location, as some of them had more text than others, and I wanted them to all be in approximately the same spot, so I had to do it a bit more visually, rather than being able to conveniently copy it every time; however, it was useful for me not to have to completely recreate it from scratch. After this I proceeded to add in clips from my other premier file in order to use in some speaking bits and as clips to provide visual context to the verbal context. I made the fight sequence into a subsequence, so that it would not take up too much room on my time line, and that I would only have to cut one layer, making it much more simpler for me. I also had
- 2. to change the size and temperature for another clip, as I had to remove some effects due to how I had edited on the other document. I then once again changed the volume levels of music and audio, with some of the new clips having audio that needed to be adjusted, and the original scenes needing to be louder. After some contemplation, I decided to add in the flyer I Had worked on recently, as well as some text above it to indicate that people would get a 10 percent discount when using a certain code. I made this not quite fully opaque, with the image sitting at 80 percent and the text 50 percent, while both fading in and out with the opacity key frames.