FINISHING THE FILM

The visuals of the film are complete - the shots are colour corrected with After Effects' curves controls, the visual effects shots are spliced in with what I call 'the narrative edit' (which is the main chunk of the opening; the flow from shots to other shots, conveying the story), and the running shots have been warp stabilised on AE to create a stable, electric throbbing effect.

Myself, getting into character whilst doing ADR

All that remains to be done is the audio work, as the sound captured on location is messy - full of vehicles, bus brake screeches, other peoples footsteps and voices when we don't want them there. So in the previous lesson we decided to completely re-record all the audio/dialouge, to dub over the sound we have at the moment in a process called ADR, or Additional Dialogue Recording/Replacing.

Louis, my partner, doing ADR in the music tech studio

I learned this was not easy - on a previous project which I am still currently working on named 'Psyched', I took Louis aside to do a small portion of ADR to dub over one of the scenes. So being the second time we had gone about this process, we had already learned how to seamlessly record sound using vocal/condenser microphones recording directly into Logic Pro 9 in our school's sound studio (located in the music department).