Making the video- Final cut

After I had completed my text, I opened final cut pro and created a new project. The first thing I did was to import my text and sound elements. To make sure that I could get everything lined up right I decided to delete the sound off of my text movie and add the speech over the top again in final cut. 

Before i could make a start on editing my clips I needed to change them into prores files. To do this I opened compressor, selected all of my files and changed them to Apple ProRes 442 (HQ) by dragging that setting onto my clips. Once done I submitted all of my clips and opened batch monitor to see what was processing, here are some screen grabs from that process.

Once that was completed I then started filtering through my clips on final cut and picking out sections I liked using the in and out points (I and O on the keyboard) to extract the selected sections into their own clips I used cmd+U on the keyboard. This helped me filter through the clips and have a clearer idea of what I could do with my clips. 

Once I had all the clips I though I would need it was on to editing them so they looked more abstract. For most of the clips that meant zooming in on them. To do this I double clicked the clip to make sure it was selected in the viewer window, I then went to the motion tab and changed the scale, below you can see screen grabs of this.

This is the technique that I used on most if not all of my clips to make them more visually interesting and abstract. 

After I had edited the clips in this way and had arranged them on the time line in the order I felt they looked best, I then went about getting the "old" feel. To do this I first changed the colour of all of my clips so they were all sepia, to do this I double clicked on a clip to make sure it was selected, went to effects/video filters/quicktime/colour tint

Once I had done this I went back to the viewer window and selected the "filters" tab, in here I could change quite a few things but the one that was most important was changing the tint to sepia.

Once I had changed the tint to sepia, I saw my clip go from bright orange to a dark, tonal clip which looked much more like something you would see in 1961.

The other thing I decided would make these clips look older would be to make them flickery and jump around, to do this I used the Razor blade tool and cut up each clip a lot of times. 

Once I had done this it was a case of using the arrow tool to select parts and delete them, I then cut up the remaining clips and swapped them around to make it look as if the film had got stuck in the projector and jumped back a frame, I also added a Gaussian blur to some of the sections of clip to make them seem less in focus. I feel this effect gave my clips the feel that they were old jumpy projections and gave them a slight Charlie Chaplin look.