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.