POST-PRODUCTION
ROUGH CUT
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I started editing my footage in May 18th in order to produce a Rough Cut. The first day, James brought his laptop with him as he intended to do his editing on Adobe Elements rather than Premier Pro and then he taught me how to use Elements so that I could start my editing.
From May 19th onwards however, James' family wouldn't allow him to bring his laptop to college so he had to do his editing at home and I had to continue mine on Premier Pro. In the end, I ended up producing 3 Rough Cuts, unintentionally due to unforeseen problems that neither me nor the Technicians could solve. The most notable problem was solving the problem of the Cyber-Stalker appearing on James' laptop since his parents would not allow him to operate it during filming. I tried imposing a still image of the Cyber-Stalker whenever the laptop screen appeared but this created a problem in which the image appeared in front of James when it was supposed to be behind him. I only discovered this problem while producing my first Rough Cut. I tried making the image smaller in the clips where this problem occured but this created obvious Continuity Errors and Inconsistencies that prompted the creation of a 2nd Rough Cut.
I compensated by expanding the image of the Cyber-Stalker so that it covered the whole screen. This did at least help me to learn to use more of the available tools on Premier Pro, most notably altering the Scale Height and Width, changing the rotation and positioning of images using the Corner Pin function.
However, I forgot to expand the image every time it needed expanding before submitting my 2nd Edit so I had to create a 3rd Edit in which I performed all the necessary expansions. I knew I would be heavily criticised for this and sure enough, I was as the general feedback I received was that the room was too brightly lit for a Horror film and the Cyber-Stalker should have been filmed rather than photographed and the ending was not very popular.
FINAL CUT
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On May 26th, James and I went into Natalie Cooper's unoccupied room F301 to film me as the Cyber-Stalker. I insisted that this time, we would film in reduced light so I turned all the lights off and closed most of the blinds. James occupied the role of Cinematographer while I read from my script wearing the black balaclava and Army jacket once more. Once this was over, James left to do his editing at home while I continued my editing in F303.
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I spent most of May 26th and 27th and the next day editing my Final Cut, this time with the footage of me as the Cyber-Stalker included. As before with the still image, I imposed the footage onto the laptop screen using the Scale Height and Width, Rotation and Corner Pin functions only for it to appear in front of James when it was supposed to be behind him. Deciding I had to include some Over-The-Shoulder Shots somehow, I searched through my Raw Footage to find a clip in which James looked to his right, away from the camera rather than to his left towards it, so I replaced the other Over-The Shoulder Shots with that clip in both instances where James appeared behind the Cyber-Stalker. I also compensated for the overwhelming brightness of the light by turning the de-saturation level up to 100% so that the film was entirely in grayscale to add to the Horror Aspect and imposed a plain white image onto the laptop screen set to appear for just a split second so that it would appear as a brief flash to simulate the laptop switching on. I also changed the font colour of the Stalker part of the title to red and altered the opening sequence of James as Frankie entering the room and sitting down by removing the sequence in which I zoomed into an Over-The-Shoulder Shot of him.
