Editing Process; Colour Masking

Adding a colour mask:

For this one shot we wanted the colour of focus to be red, whilst all the other colours in the shot were drained and more dull. We did this buy creating a colour mask, a colour mask isolates a particular colour on an image. On the selected clip, we went onto the colour collection bar in the effects section. Then we selected the Apply masks section. This then makes the colour mask parameter appears in the same section as the video inspector. As the mask parameter appears we then enlarged it and dragged it to fit the entire section of the post box as that was the iconic piece of set we wanted our audience to focus on. As we changed the size of the parameter the rest of the image becomes monochrome/ a more drained. We used a lot of mask parameters to make sure that the entire section of the post box was filled to create our desired effect. We then played around with the different shadows, mid-tones and exposure levels that we could use on our monochrome section of the shot until we found a colour shot which had a bit of colour, so it wasn't black and white.

Overlaying Shots:

We had two shots which we really liked of Megan walking towards the post box and posting a mysterious item. We really wanted a way to incorporate these two shots into our trailer without it becoming too repetitive, doing a shot overlay was a really good way to do this. To create this overlay we cut both of our shots and dragged one on top of the other. We then played around with the opacity and the burning techniques on final cut pro which gave us different ideas of how the two shots could be incorporated together through using different colours etc. Both of the shots had the colour masking technique so they blended really well together and created an effective and different technique.