Editing

We had to sort through a lot of different clips before we even got around to importing because while we had filmed at the same time, we couldn't start the cameras at exactly the same time. In addition to this some of the cameras carried on rolling while others were stopped and started and so there were different amounts of clips and they were different lengths. This made sorting through them very time consuming.
Once we had sorted the clips, we began with importing our piece into premiere. When importing our piece we had to triple the width of the 1920x1080 standard screen size so that we could fit all three pieces side by side to edit.
We knew we would be exporting them at the end as three separate files, but we needed them side by side to edit them accurately and ensure they matched up.
We also had to go through each clip and match them up, as it was essential they were in sync, and trim them to exactly the same length.

Our piece, though it had all been filmed at the same time, in the same place, still had some irregularities between the shots. This would have been due to different angles and spaced out lighting, which we noticed too late after our shoot.
Colour grading the two shots with the actors was relatively simple as they were on the same background, just a few meters apart, however it was trickier to get the right tones for the middle screen as it was using a different background and was also lying down flat.

Nicole used After Effects to figure out how to make our texts come up on screen, and she spent a lot of time getting the shape right and learning how to make the items move and add text. I helped her with finding the colours and fonts to make it look more legitimate.

We decided that it would be a good idea at the end of the woman's video to have it glitch to black as the others fade to black. This would be to symbolise how we are using old technologies less and less and the eventually won't exist. One of the hardest things to do these days is match up formats so that you can watch things. What I mean by this is for example, I have a lot of old videos at home, but no VCR to play them of off because my dad chucked it out to make room for a DVD player. Old tech is going out of style, and as our piece is partly about the relationship between new and old tech we wanted a way to show this. 

To do this we decided that having the man keep trying to contact the woman with his iPhone and technological pieces and the woman have a delayed response and trying to reply with something old fashioned the the man didn't understand. She continues to try to keep in touch but eventually her screen begins to glitch and fail, and turns off. This is the end of the piece.

To accomplish this I needed to learn how to create a glitch in premiere.

I looked on youtube to find different tutorials on how to make glitches. This was the first one I found that I liked.

It seemed very simple at first, copying layers and changing them to 100% blue, red or green, and then changing the opacity. I didn't get much further than this however as for reasons unknown I couldn't get the settings to remain fixed. As time was of the essence I decided to have another quick browse of the other youtube videos to see if I could find something else that might work.

I quickly found another video, and this one I liked the effect of even more. 

This tutorial involved creating and adjustment layer and adding wave form effects and changing it to the noise version. I could then mess around with how big the waves were vertically or horizontally, and see what looked best. I didn't want it to be too comical to look at, we wanted it to genuinely looking like it was bugging out, and so the waves weren't too in your face but were there just enough to be like 'ooh what was that?'

Before adding it straight to our final piece, I began to practice on one of my own holiday videos, and just spent some time experimenting with how I could place the adjustment layer, splitting it up and adding it in different places.

This is an example of what it would look like in the film. I really liked the effect and so did Nicole and we thought it would get across the point of the old technology fading away and falling out of use.

However we began to run into some problems when we tried to add the effect onto our final piece.

The file was already enormous as we wanted relatively decent quality and it was also 3 times the size of a regular screen.

This meant that when we added the adjustment layer and then tried to export it, the file came up with the finishing time estimation of about 9 hours. We understandably couldn't wait that long and for now had to hold back on adding the glitch to the end of the piece, but hopefully we'll be able to work on it and come up with a solution.