The third clip I was to edit for my minor project was Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). This is a very CGI heavy piece, full of special effects and action set pieces, very reliant on the visuals, and very little sound input at all. The clip is of course robots fighting each other with humans stuck in the middle. I began editing this clip by rearranging the size and making it fit for 16:9 and cropping any overflow parts of the footage. Then because this specific clip is CGI orientated and features very fantastic colours and tones, I decided to completely boost up all the colour effects I possibly could. I used colour effect and heightened a lot of the qualities to give a strong overwhelmingly bright visual experience for the audience. It gave the footage a very cheap feel and even took away from some of the action, making it look silly and cartoony. After adjusting the colours, I added a second layer to add the footage again and superimposed it over the footage of the original, and played it one frame behind, giving the slow and lacking effect again that the footage is jumping and buffering a little bit. Also on this layer I added a little ripple effect that would play throughout, making certain areas of the footage more noticeable and almost adding a lens flare of sorts to specific shots. I quite enjoyed the impact this had on the footage, and it was something new for me to add to my editing style for this piece. Over the top of all the footage I had short clips of digital interference and even some analog disruption playing off and on, really stealing the attention from the audience and becoming quite irritating. In the comparison picture below, you can see the true effect of my altered visual footage, next to the high quality original footage.
After the visuals had been altered, I moved on again and started working on the audio for this action packed sequence. Because audio has such a strong effect on the viewer and the majority of this audio was score/sound effects and explosions, I really wanted to deteriorate the audio quite effectively on this piece and really see whats more important. For the original basic sound I used Avid's very on D-Verb effect and minimised all aspects of the sound so you're really struggling to listen out for anything of importance. Under all this I played some microphone distortion which really impacted the final piece greatly. The distortion was very loud and synced up great with some of the action, It makes the piece unwatchable and a absolute waste of time watching. This effect may only find its true purpose of this clip rather than any of my other ones.
Out of all the clips, this was the one I was most interested and excited to edit and I'm very pleased with the final result of these clips. I spent more time on this clip than the previous two, and incorporated old and new techniques to really find that balance of low quality visuals and low quality audio. The response my experiment gathers from this clip will be very important in seeing which is of more importance. I'm very excited for an audience to give their opinions on all of this clips so far.
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