‘The Making Of Insula’ Editing Complete & Feedback on ‘The Game’
It’s been quite a productive week working on South – ‘The Making Of Insula’; I passed the full length cut on to Daw who completed the proper sound mix, then myself & Sla sorted the colour grading and added the finishing touches to the overall look.
Today, I sat down to begin the final cuts; separating footage in to the three episodes. I really thought this would take longer than it did, given that I would have to trim off over 20 minutes to get the episodes under 10 minutes each, but I’m delighted to say that as of this evening; the editing process is almost complete. I’ve just got to add the titles and credits.
The first episode was the easiest to cut together, this was probably due to the way I started editing the project in the beginning and the way the start of the Insula recording process worked. Episode 2 got a little trickier as the recording process became more scattered; different instruments playing different songs on different days.
The third and final episode was a nightmare; running about 12 minutes over, it meant I had to cut quite a lot of perfectly good footage. It’s always difficult to cut out something good but it had to be done. Unfortunately, even though the stuff that was being cut out was long enough to make up a fourth episode, it was just lacking the structure it needed to stand alone.
Tomorrow, I’ll add the titles and credits. During the week the lads from South will be the first to watch the completed episodes and if there’s no major problems; episode 1 will go online next weekend followed by an episode a week. After 13 weeks (from shooting to editing), I’m really excited to see what people think.
On another note, I’d like to say thanks to everyone for all their feedback on ‘The Game‘, when I put the short online two days ago I wasn’t expecting the response it got. Cheers to everyone for their comments and feedback on YouTube and here on my blog. I’ve even had a couple of emails and phone calls about it!? Oh and thanks to Anthony and Ken for posting it on their blogs.
One thing I would like to point out; with most video posts I always ask viewers to watch it in HD for best results. However, I’m annoyed to find that when watching it in HD on Youtube, the full results of the muzzle flash are lost. I’m not sure if this is to do with the frame rate that the videos play in HD but the frame with the actual flash isn’t there!? So, if you haven’t watched it yet then for best results please just watch it as normal.
The response and feedback have been very encouraging and that was only a test, hopefully everything that’s to follow will be as well received.
South – ‘The Making Of Insula’ Episode 1 will go online next weekend!
