Meaning & Purpose : In this section, I will show how I use different video transition and editing technique to achieve different meaning of the scene.
Montage Video
In the middle section of the video. I had about 1 minute of montage. The screenshot above only showed a small section of the montage video. At the beginning, I had Alan placing noodles in his wardrobe, then Jeremy eating biscuits. After that, Jeremy was eating noodles. Next scene was Alan placing noodles in the wardrobe again. Then Jeremy was took a pack of noodles from his wardrobe. At the end was the crossing out the calendar.
The relationship between those scenes were : Stealing > Replacing > Over time change. By using montage editing, it lets audience to feel a time travel experience.
Cross Dissolve Effect
One of the montage scene was my actor stealing oreo from the wardrobe and eat it. At the same time, I want it present to time pass chance in just one frame. Therefore I decided to add a cross calendar scene on top of the eating oreo scene and combine them with dissolve effect.
First I had applied a calendar scene on top of the eating oreo scene in the timeline, then I had chose cross dissolve effect in the video transition and directly drag it on top of the calendar scene in the timeline. Afterwards, I had double clicked the cross dissolve transition to adjust the start and end dissolve percentage. I had began the dissolve effect with 21.6% and end with 50.5%.
The result of this dissolve effect in this two scene joining together had looked very good. Having a crossing calendar scene at the background and a actor eating oreo at the front, it gave a time travel effect to audience. It builds up an atmosphere in the film that the actor had came a long way with the audience.
Apply RGB curve
The screenshot above shows the original footage of I took in the wardrobe. As I took this footage in one of the boarding room that I borrowed, the surround lighting was either very bright or completely dark. Therefore I had to took this footage in a very bright environment, although I want it to be dim. While editing this footage, I decided to dim to whole footage by using some colour correction in premiere pro.
First, I had searched the RGB curve in Effect. Drag the RGB curve effect into the footage. Then I had slightly adjusted the RGB and master colour. The mainly different was adjusting the master colour which was basically the light control of the whole footage. I had lower the master colour to one fifth to the original. Then I had slightly up-curve the Red, Green, Blue colour. The RGB colour increased had sharpen some of the fine detail area in the footage.
The screenshot above show the outcome of the footage after being tuned down the amount of light. The whole footage dimmer but the RGB colour is richer than the original footage. The graphic is darker than it was and increase the connection with the pervious scene. It helps to build up the tension of the storyline and more importantly, audience will be easier to understand the whole storyline.
White Screen Transition
Part of my video transition in the movie, I had used this white screen transition. The benefit of using this technique compare to dissolve effect is I can connect two non related video smoothly. It can also represent time change as well. The screenshot above shows how I applied this technique in my movie. At first the actor was searching his wardrobe. Then the screen had changed fully white, and next scene was the actor sitting on the floor wondering why he got all those items in his wardrobe. This two non related footage had been joined smoothly without any weird or awkward gap between those footages.
To do this white screen transition, first we have to create a white layer in "file" > "colour matte". Then, we have to set the white screen fit exactly the same size as the footage size. Then choose the white colour and press "OK".
Once the white screen layer is created. Directly drag the white screen on top of the footage where I want the transition be. Select the white screen and change the opacity from low to high and back to low again with a progressive opacity. The progressive opacity will smoothen the whole transition.
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