OUAN501 - Practical, Post Production

The final step in the process was post-production. There wasn't much to do in terms of tweaking or additional things that needed to be added, but there was a few elements I wanted to include to enhance the level of autheniticty and make the experience more complete for the viewer. The first thing I did was add a subtitle to a scene featuring an interview with 'Brad Bushmen', so that the audience knew exactly who was talking in conjunction with his name being revealed in the voiceover. As well as this ending credits allowed me to give credit to the numerous sources that I used and essentially thank the companies that I've taken footage from.

The very last adjustment I made simply to tie all of the elements together and essentially create a more cinematic feel to the piece was some colour correction. I put the exported documentary in premiere pro and used the three-way colour correction tool to make the dark colours more clue and put more yellow into the highlights. This kind of contrast creates a more cinematic feel and is only subtle but I think it adds quite a lot to the continuity of colours throughout the documentary. I was careful to make sure that the changes I made didn't take anything away from the game footage I was using as the colours are one of the aspects that I wanted to show case in the closing montage of the animation. It also meant that a little bit of the seemingly dark areas were taken out of the footage and made into a dark blue tone instead. With video work I like this kind of cinematic effect overall and I think it was a nice final adjustment to make with the documentary as a whole.