Post Production blog for Annie

Post production blog By Alex Clinton

Now we have finished all the filming and all the paperwork we finally get to do the vision mixing. To do the vision mixing we used adobe premier pro. Using adobe we used the multi camera feature on the software and we did 'on the fly' editing with the four camera screens on the left hand of the screen and the thing we actually saw on the right. Before we could even start editing we had to get the video of the tapes that we had recorded on and onto the computers so we can use them.

While I was editing I just remembered not to leave a shot on for longer than 5 seconds because this is when the viewer because uninterested. In the group we each took 15 minutes each for filming the first act of the two act show. For the second act of the show we did 10 minutes each of the four of us. Once I had done my two pieces of film I then went back over them and I would do certain bits again if I thought that I could get a better shot of something. For example if something was happening in the centre of the stage and I had chosen the left camera then I would change to the central camera.



We didn't only get the visual side of things we needed the audio too obviously but we got feeds from all 4 cameras and a direct feed from the sound desk which picked up the microphones with. Now that we had all of these sound feeds we had to sync them up like we would in the vision mixing but with this we needed a loud or significant noise that was picked up by all of these microphones and we would find them on each of the pieces of tech and we would see on the graph a spike where the sound occurred. This spike would stick up and so we could also find it easier.

Now that we had finished putting the edit together we then added it onto a disc.