Post Production

 

Post production:

Editing:

Editing was done on two different software, the irst draft was done on clipchamp but got rejected, but later on with some changes and re-shoots and addition of new clips the main cut was approved, after rejection capcut mobile was used to edit.

the apps i used:

The first draft:

As mentioned above changes were done in order to improve the aesthetics of the short film.

the editing done on clipchamp is as follow:

the scene shown in the picture above is the starting sequence of the short film, as you can see transition of cross fade was used along with a door opening sound effect, to make the look more realistic and the sound more diegetic. 

later to switch between scenes fade through black was use along with a door closing sound effect, hence from here the background music started.In this scene, we also get a closeup on the fingers as he taps them continuously, to make it more appealing.with a cross blur transition as we cut to the extreme closeup shot of the eyes,with a pan movement across.

the background music continued with a cross fade transition between scenes,in this part a the man tries to pull the knife sound effect was used to make it more realistic, same goes with the other scene as we transit with a cross fade as he stabs the picture to make it more natural a stabbing sound effect was used.and ending it with a fade through the black as we move forward.

After stabbing the knife we used a fade through the black transition, to transit to the closeup shot of the knife in his hand, along with a walking sound effect as he walks towards the tied man, a stabbing sound effect is used to make it digetic and lastly again using the same transition we see the man has swapped place the other man comes to cut his throat, a the title sequenced is revealed along with the end credits.
 

All these clips shown above  that were compiled and edited, got rejected specifically to improve it our sir advised us some things, the main reason was that the compiled video was short, secondly sir wanted some more scenes, he also didn't liked the end credits, along with the background music which was some sound from squid game 

So the new edited version had all the clips shown above, but with the removal of some sounds, the background music and the end credits, the re edit was done on capcut. with a new background sound which was the main theme of the jaws along with some new sound effects the changes to edit are shown below:

 

This is the start of the new editing phase, with new clips, as you can see in this image the audio has been changed to a new audio, which is the main theme of the movies jaws. As you can see I have split the audio in two as the same chunk of sound used at the start is copy pasted forward with whole song (the sound used was not completed used only parts of it). later text were add to introduce the cast and crew, which used the font called "MODERN" and animations were add to show the appearance and exit of text. the animation for in is fade in which had a time of 0.8 seconds, whereas the animation for out is dilute and the timings for it the same as the in animation of 0.8 seconds. In addition to this the first voice over which was recorded using the app had a volume of 239 as visible in the image.

As we move forward text was added to reveal the title of the movie, the font used for this text is called "Caslon" and a animation called zoom out 2 was used for this effect and the timings for the animation to work was 1.7 seconds as seen in the image. 

Along with audios like voice overs and and sound effects were used at this specific point like a door opening sound effect. later key frames were added to the audio to make the volume decrease, to make other sounds like the walking on concrete sound or the door closing sound pop up and more diegetic. The audio had volume of  12 and was decreased to 3. 

As the scene transits, I have again done some tempering with audio by slowly increasing it by using the same method as before by adding key frames now the volume was increased from 3 to 9 in order to enhance the intensity of the scene.

 Along with this part of the short film had nothing much just the finger tapping sound effect and a voice over with a volume of 234.lastly a knife sliding sound effect is used. all the sound got recognition due to the sound tempering.

As we continue with the scene a stabbing sound effect is used, to make the background sound effects like the walking on the concrete sound effect to pop up and to add depth to his walking. we changed the sound setting using key frames as shown below

The volume for the voice overs were kept a range of 234 at that scene and along with that key frames were again added to temper with the volume, now the volume was decreased from 9 to 2. 

As the scene comes to its end when the stabbing scene approaches, many sound effects were used as this specific scene had quite importance for the film. sound effects used are for example a stabbing sound, a heavy breathing sound, heart beat sound, a throat cut sound and lastly a tinnitus sound effect along with voice overs and a door opening sound. All these sounds were added in a sequence one by one. the volumes of the sounds ranged between 100 and 310. 

Lastly text was added for the explanation of the story. the font for this text was "MODERN" and key frames were added at beginning and the ending of the text to create a moving effect. this was done by moving the text at the bottom of the video and added a key frame then at the end the text was placed at the top and key frame was added to make this possible.

(As such no color grading or color composition was done in this short film.) 

Audios used:

There were a diverse range of audios used in this short films, the audio were mixed with the background score along with the voice overs. some of the sounds used were from the editing software stock whereas other were taken from youtube which links are displayed down below: