Minor Project- Editing Techniques

For this minor project I have decided I will be editing on the professional software Avid. Avid is the industry standard for editing and I've learnt more and more skills since I've been at Uni. For this module I need to learn the opposite of everything I've been taught, I'll need to downgrade and disrupt the quality of the videos instead of improving them and editing for a higher standard. I've began researching techniques and ways of lowering the quality and quite a few or using the same tools I already use for improving but lowering and decreasing certain aspects to see a major effect on the visuals.

Tools such as Colour Effect play a major part in the importance of degrading the visual quality, changing the hue and saturation can have significant effects on the colours and remove or add brighter and darker tones completely changing the final outcome. You can also alter individual colours with this effect to really change and add an off putting visual look to the film. Another technique I've learnt to change the visual quality is to give the appearance of poor frame rate and sort of give it an echo. To achieve this I need to use the visual twice. On one layer will be the main footage that will be used for maintaining the story and to be edited, while the second layer will be placed above and set to play one frame after the original clip, but superimposed over the top making it see through and noticeable on the video. This is a very effective technique in lowering the video quality and is quite off putting for the audience. Along with the colour changes this is my primarily method of effecting the visual quality of the footage, other changes will be applied here and there so all videos don't look the same, but I don't want to alter it too much because theres a chance of overkill which could ruin the experiment.

For the audio quality I looked into using different software for editing the sound aspect as Avid does offer their own sound effect editing, there are other software which is for only sound editing. Adobe Audition, Audacity and iZotope are professional and industry standard softwares known for sound editing and can offer unique sound editing for my work but my main goal is to lower the sound quality instead of enhancing or improving. Lee should me new methods of using the Avid sound editing tools and very interesting ways of altering the sound to achieve the effect I want. Using Avid's own sound editing tools does not only create the sound effects I'm looking for, but it also makes it simpler with less and less going to and from softwares, exporting and importing files and clips.