Post Production (editing) - Comp 1

 This is the post production editing, done by Gemi & Jason

Gemi:

Our friend Gus Yudha does most of the camera work since it's his camera and he is the only one that knows how to operate the ronin mechanical tripod well. Some scenes really look professional and smooth due to the tripod. The camera was only used for the main shots, not the drafts or practice. The picture under is Gus.

We could have planned the schedule for the filming better, it took a while which limited the editing time. We did a lot of improvises along the way. (Like the alleyway after the car scene).

We did some drafts for clean drug transactions that look good on camera. We planned to make at least 3 different drug trades in different locations:

Our first rough draft:

• Too short
• Too simple
• Only 2 people

Behind the scenes

The second draft is roughly what's going to happen for the real drug and brownie trade, only need to edit the jump cuts to make it feel fast-paced as this is an action movie. I really like how the camera switches point-of-view to inside the locker as Jason tries to get the drugs. We added that undershot of baron to replicate a feeling to the audience that the teachers are the ones the dealers are afraid of but learn not all of them are bad. When we implement this for our film, we can't have more than 2 drug trades with different locations, due to the limited 2-minute duration cap. 

We used WhatsApp as our main communication method, it also has a feature to use voice messages and our friend Elang recorded the roar. We had the idea of changing the distributor credit opening in a more funny way, we spoofed it since we need a more comedic part, our movie is Action/Comedy. Also recorded the ambient noises of the school canteen to fill off space at the beginning.

The footage we recorded was all in big sizes, instead of using hard drives or USBs, we thought it will be better to take advantage of our special school gmail's google drive that has infinite storage. Everyone can also access it instantly. This probably saved a lot of production time.

I used premiere pro for editing, I'm more familiar with this software and if I'm confused in some parts since premier is so popular, I always get what I'm looking for most on Youtube. I'm in charge of every editing and Jason did the transitions between the clips with his software Adobe After Effects.

Special animations are better done with After Effects

Greenscreen alleyway clip

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Jason used the roto brush feature on After effects to create some sort of green screen for another way to transition. To remove the greenscreen, I added the clip I want to transition above the green alleyway clip and used a tool from premiere which is the Ultrakey.

A simple drag and drop, then change the ultra key color to green to remove it.

Alot of the scenes uses jump-cuts. Thankfully it's very simple as I just have to cut clips and some scenes according to the beat of the song (Living La Vida Loca).

Raw footage, no jumpcuts

Jason:

Because my computer is basically a Potato, I decided to edit where I got editing lessons ESDA Denpasar.

Job 1: The Drone Shot

the raw video

what we want to do

Step 1: Search youtube for solutions

This was far above my editing capabilities so far. Luckily I found this!

 so boom boom copy copy

I applied the camera tracker and added text with the decided font: Overwave [https://www.dafont.com/overwave.font]

While doing this we wanted to slightly edit the font

1. Baron wanted it to blend more with the wall

2. Gemi wanted it to be pure white

I had an idea to add glow to it

We ended up liking this one so we used it

After that I masked the text so it wont spillover and it left us with this:

So I uploaded it to Google Drive and Gemi can continue editing

Time spent: 1 Hour

Job 2: El Higho End Scene

The Idea was to have the El Higho text appear and shake in time with Gemi's cough which would be dubbed later on by Gemi. There is a problem with the rendering which caused audio to be sped up.

I learnt how to this at my lessons beforehand. Its just keyframes :) 

the raw video

But first we have to make sure the font looks good!

We chose the Doctor Punk font for it [https://www.dafont.com/doctor-punk.font]

1. Default

2. Niki wanted to invert colors and make thicker outlines which looked like this

we thought the outlines were too thick so...

boom, everyone liked it :)

At this point in time, there was a conflict of ideas

1. Niki wanted the text to appear one by one. [so "El" then "High" then "-O"] which looked like this:

2. Gemi wanted the text to enlarge and spin like this:

They compromised and decided to do both ideas at once and asked to make it faster becuase they thought the enlargement was "awkward"

Niki sent some drawings to help me

So we chop-chop edit and.....

Got approval from the crew and we move on

Time Spent: 2 Hours

Job 3: The Alleyway Transition

For a smooth transition we decided that the background behind Javier Raton should disappear as he walks

raw vid

This uses roto brush. Simple!

A roto brush tutorial for context

I turned the background to green so that it would work like a greenscreen when Gemi edits the final version. I was forced to make the video more zoomed in so it would work [discussed w/ Gemi about this beforehand]

So we got this:

and approved

Time Taken: 2.5 hours for 5 second video