Once we had the rough cut at hand, our job was a lot simpler than before. Making the rough cut was hectic as it required shot listings, cuts and copies, imports and re-imports, text additions and a lot more. However, constructing the final cut was not so difficult as all we required was to refine cuts and add/adjust the changes our media teacher asked us to make. These included the shortening of a few shots which were so long that they were a source of boredom for the audience and the addition of a few inter-connecting shots which would reduce the abruptness of our scenes.
However, this turned out to be quite a troublesome task as I fiddled continuously with the management of audio, video, and background score cuts. Also, it was only after the sixth attempt that I was able to manage a full final cut of our rough cut as lack of memory in the computer system and load shedding led to the loss of our final cut around four times, exclusive of the one time when the entire audio went out of synchronization and nothing in the entire film made any sense, neither ,at this panicky stage, did me or Dua as we had little time left and our ancillary tasks were yet to be completed.
When editing our rough cut, we followed a particular pattern when working. We decided on adding effects to the video first, then move on to adding effects to the audio and then adding the logo roll-in, title and the closing credentials. Our last milestone was the addition of subtitles to the film.
Audio Effects
Credits and Subtitles
Here is the final cut of our short film after everything was completed therein:
Possibility Pakistan - A Short Film from Abira and Dua on Vimeo.
However, this turned out to be quite a troublesome task as I fiddled continuously with the management of audio, video, and background score cuts. Also, it was only after the sixth attempt that I was able to manage a full final cut of our rough cut as lack of memory in the computer system and load shedding led to the loss of our final cut around four times, exclusive of the one time when the entire audio went out of synchronization and nothing in the entire film made any sense, neither ,at this panicky stage, did me or Dua as we had little time left and our ancillary tasks were yet to be completed.
When editing our rough cut, we followed a particular pattern when working. We decided on adding effects to the video first, then move on to adding effects to the audio and then adding the logo roll-in, title and the closing credentials. Our last milestone was the addition of subtitles to the film.
Video Effects
Our film featured the usage of a few effects that included colour correction for the flashback scenes, dip to white and black for the transition between the past and the present or vice versa and dissolve. We didn't make use of a lot of effects as we wanted to maintain originality at its maximum throughout the film. The effects, however, were quite easy to use in premiere pro and getting the gist of them was quite an interesting realization.
The audio effects in our film featured cross fades, audio gains, speed adjustments and the basic cuts and crops in the audio track. The cross fading effect was quite an effective tool to use in our film as it helped distinguish between the four short stories that our film was portraying. The audio gains in the sound score was used for the rise and fall in volumes of sound when dialogues appeared and re-appeared. We used speed enhancers for the one flashback scene in our film whereby the audio changes pace to represent hardship and pain in the third scene with Hammad.
Logo Roll-In
Our logo roll-in was made through Photoshop CS3 which has the functionality of reverting to premiere's format. The typewriter effect was formulated through multiple layered files which were saved in jpeg format, separately and then imported into premiere in the same frame size to avoid any obstructions to the audience's eye as the film ran its course. We moved the camera across the frame by cutting the sequence into multiple shots and moving the frame in a regular pattern from the left to right. The addition of a easy-going sound score helped in making the roll-in an interesting transition.
Title
Title
Our title video with the painted hands was shot by Dua. This effect was not very difficult to create as all it took was the placement of the video layer simultaneously with the title text's layer with the dissolve effect added to the sequence opening and closing layer with the audio cross fade in the film's opening sequence.
These two aspects of our short film were probably the most easily taken tasks as all it required was the used of the text tool, work space and the right font colour and the job was done. One tedium in this was, however, the closing down of work space followed by the individual and manual import of each subtitle in their places.
Here is the final cut of our short film after everything was completed therein:
Possibility Pakistan - A Short Film from Abira and Dua on Vimeo.
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