Week 6.2 Reshoot and Final Edit

As mentioned in our last post, Jason felt we were missing a large aspect of our persuasion premise by not speaking enough about our actual idea of saving the ferns from deforestation. Although we do briefly mention it in our 4th scene by saying "Here at freefern.com we find the perfect leafy companion for you as well as saving native plants from deforestation." Jason wanted us to add in more information about this in our final scene somehow.

Jess and I felt the easiest way to do this was to just fully reshoot that scene and add in/ change the script lines.

The new script lines I wrote are:
"The problem is, big companies only want pine trees, that's what makes them money."
"And all these little guys get hurt in the process. We want to go in and save them, giving them happy new homes with you."
"But we need your help to bring our plants to the people."

These new lines should be enough to remind the viewers back to our real motive that we only briefly touched on in our earlier scenes. Bringing the reality forward right before we ask them to donate to in some ways almost guilt them into helping us.

Monday morning we began our reshoot, these are our favourite takes from the shoot.


Ruth:

So for our final editing, I basically just repeated the processes we went through while editing the first scenes. I began by tidying up the cuts and lining up our scenes with the music. I kinda felt it was a little jolty but we'd left things too late to find new music so I'm happy enough with it given the circumstances.

Then I went on to do some colour correction and then colour grading to get the shots matching with the colour tone of the other shots. We had to reshoot at a different time of day from when we shot the first time so the natural ambient light did shine through weirdly. But I feel we've managed to mitigate this ok by setting up some china lights to push out deep shadows and the rest I was able to fix up in editing as you can see below.

This is a quick render of the final changes I've made to the visuals today.




Jess:

Fixing audio... discuss issues with this/time restraints.

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