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Thursday 3 February 2011

Editing the CCTV footage

Today we edited the CCTV footage which we shot yesterday of Matt and Olivia (the attacker and the victim). After turning the shot black and white and changing the contrast, brightness and saturation a bit to make the shot a bit more fuzzy (to give the effect of a real CCTV camera), we tried to find a good title to use to put in the corner to make the timer in the corner which we found out from our research that so many cameras have.


At first we thought it would be easy because there is a title called 'Date/Time' which obviously displays the date and the time. But unfortunately, it was at the bottom of the screen and we wanted it at the top which we couldn't change. The other problem is that the time only displays hours and minutes and not seconds. We then found the title 'Upper' which is in the top left hand corner like we wanted and allows you to write whatever you want. This was when we realized that we were going to have to split the clip every second and add the title to each separate clip and individually change each one. Liv started off doing this and after about 20 minutes i took over and finished the rest.


It was extremely long-winded and frustrating as one time we realised that we had accidentally missed out a second and had to go back and change every single one. But when we looked at the finished result it was definitely worth it as it looked much more authentic than it would have done if we had just settled for the first title we had seen. We then watched it back and realized that the handle from the window had been in the shot so we had to crop it. We also had to change the font to make it look simpler so Olivia looked through them all and picked 'Synchro LET'. The picture below is of the finished result.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Criminal face generator


We thought it would be a good idea to have a sketch of a criminal face shown on our documentary so whilst Olivia and Matt were in the car park (during our first nights filming) sorting out what shots I needed to take I scoured google, trying to find a website that would let you do this online. As i didn't know what the technical name for the sketch was it was quite hard to find but when I typed 'criminal face generator' into google this website came up:
The website allows you to choose from loads of different face shapes, eyes, lips, hair... everything! in order to make your criminal face.
Below is a picture of the finished result...

And here are some pictures of the processs:









The program was easy enough to use all though quite fiddly as you have to arrange all the features separately and size each one but the finished result was good and once I got the hang of it it was quite easy and only took about 10 minutes to create. Hopefully we will be able to show the picture in our documentary and say something along the lines of ''This man is still out there so if you see anybody that fits this image please do not hesitate to contact this number''.

Tuesday 1 February 2011

First day of Filming

Yesterday we had our first days filming. As our main actors weren't free and we didn't have that much time we decided just to film the CCTV footage using Matt and Liv so that we had something to edit until next week when we will be able to film the rest. Firstly, I set up a tripod out of the window in the common room to get the shot of Matt (the attacker) coming into the carpark. Because the tripod was at a slightly odd angle I had to tilt it slightly out of the window holding it in place between two chairs.
The second shot of Olivia (the victim) walking towards her car was much simpler as the tripod caught the shot perfectly without me having to put it into an awkward position. With both shots I had the lights out because it made the lighting better in the shot.