Post production - edits and transition report

After receiving feedback for my first draft that I had created, I went on to begin editing my final Ident. I had taken every piece of feedback that I had received while creating the finished product. 

I started by adding some transitions to the ident for some of the shots. When there was a transition for the questions to begin, I added a cross dissolve transition, to make it clear that they have started the challenge. In addition to this, I added a fade effects when someone got the question wrong and transitioned to when the programme was about to come on. Another transition that I used was flash. This was placed just before the last shot in the timeline. When the person's dialogue had ended, this was where I installed this transition as this would have been a good opportunity to present the logo of the channel as the transition had occurred.

As part of the feedback that I had received, I had added in some extra shots that I went on to film. These shots were people watching TV but were shown individually rather than together to present their different responses. I imported them into Final Cut Pro and I added these shots to the beginning of the Ident so that there could be more context on what the two people are doing in the Ident.

When the two representatives were asking each other questions, I wanted to make this part look different to the rest of the ident, which would keep its original colour from the way it was filmed. I went with the idea of changing the colour to a blue filter. This was a look that was similar to other game shows, which would change their background colour whenever the game has started compared to when it has ended. The filter was placed when the questions were being asked and ended when a question was answered wrong. This was so that the audience can know that they weren't doing the challenge anymore and that they were instead waiting for the programme to show.

As one of my main issues was the fact that there were continuous jump cuts in the ident, I decided to try and fill them in order to make the editing smooth. I began with the jump cut when the older brother refers to watching the show 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' by adding a transparent image which was the logo of the show and a black background. This would give the audience an idea of the type of shows that is being referred to. If they saw this, they would assume that it is based on game shows. 

Another jump cut that I filled was when a challenge was raised. This jump cut was when the younger brother went on to call for a challenge in which they both ask each other questions. I added a shot of his older brother reacting to the challenge as a way to present if he likes the idea of being challenged or not. 

I went on to filling the jump cuts which was visibly seen when a question was being answered by the younger brother. I decided to add images of the chasers as they were the ones that were being named as part of his answer. I put a full size image of the Governess and the Beast at first, then I went on to including images of the dark Destroyer and the Sinnerman, but instead of putting their full images, I decided to try something different for them and put them both at the same time, with both images being presented on each side. This only applied for the images of these two chasers, as I then went on to adding a full image of the Vixen.

After, I went on to filling another jump cut, which was around the beginning of the ident. This was when the younger brother complains about the advert. The issue with that one was that there was a clear difference in the colour. To fill this jump cut, I decided to add an advert which would have been one of the adverts that wasn't of interest for the brother. However, this was an advert which would have already been presenting on the channel, meaning that I was unable to use it. I then went of to film a short advert for Fairy Liquid, which was a shot of someone holding the bottle. I then imported the video onto final cut pro and added it onto the timeline to fill in the jump cut. To make this in an advert form, I 

imported an image of a fairy Liquid with a transparent background and made a text next to it, which was a slogan that reads 'lasts 2x longer'. I inserted a white background so that the image of the fairy bottle can stand out and be the main focus. I placed the image on the left side of the video and the text next to it. I then put in a fade effect from the shot of the bottle being held to the next shot of the image and the text so that it can appear more as an advert rather than a random video.