Commencing with the edit
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breakinglight11Bernie has started editing the first episode of Dream Machine. It is almost-but-not-quite fully shot at this point, but enough that it’s possible to start assembling it. In this “Zoom+” style, as we call it, a big part of the editing is to build the screen composition and framing up the tracks within their boxes.
Early assembly of a scene — with Pieter Wallace, Charlotte Brewer, Circe Rowan, Tegan Kehoe, and Elizabeth Ross
Zoom+ editing, we discovered, is best done in stages. We learned a ton from the process of putting together the digital Hawking shows from this past year, and are hoping to apply it to push the envelope even further.
After building the composition, they’ll have to be speed ramped, which is the process of adjusting the timing so the individually-shot tracks will sound like they’re in conversation with each other and to take out all the dead air.
Transitions get put in, sometimes from scene to scene, sometimes for the individual boxes— and for this project, we’re planning to experiment with more dynamic ones. Since this is a looser, sillier work, we feel like it would fit the tone better than for Mrs. Hawking.
Then it needs the backgrounds put in over the green screens, the finding of which is a task in itself, as they need to be 4K images in order to not go too fuzzy.
Visual and audio effects are next, in order to ground and given more context to the action. I’d also like to have a soundtrack of mood-setting incidental music, which since adding it to the Hawking shows I just thought elevated it so much.
As I said, we learned a lot doing it the first time around with Mrs. Hawking, which has streamlined things a bit. But it’s a long, multi-step process, that usually has many revisions, many tweaks to make it just right. Still, I’m super excited to be actually putting it together. A large number of actors have done some amazing work, and I can’t wait to see them all virtually working together. And to get to show them a product they can be proud of!
Early assembly of a scene — with Pieter Wallace, Charlotte Brewer, Circe Rowan, Tegan Kehoe, and Elizabeth Ross
Zoom+ editing, we discovered, is best done in stages. We learned a ton from the process of putting together the digital Hawking shows from this past year, and are hoping to apply it to push the envelope even further.
After building the composition, they’ll have to be speed ramped, which is the process of adjusting the timing so the individually-shot tracks will sound like they’re in conversation with each other and to take out all the dead air.
Transitions get put in, sometimes from scene to scene, sometimes for the individual boxes— and for this project, we’re planning to experiment with more dynamic ones. Since this is a looser, sillier work, we feel like it would fit the tone better than for Mrs. Hawking.
Then it needs the backgrounds put in over the green screens, the finding of which is a task in itself, as they need to be 4K images in order to not go too fuzzy.
Visual and audio effects are next, in order to ground and given more context to the action. I’d also like to have a soundtrack of mood-setting incidental music, which since adding it to the Hawking shows I just thought elevated it so much.
As I said, we learned a lot doing it the first time around with Mrs. Hawking, which has streamlined things a bit. But it’s a long, multi-step process, that usually has many revisions, many tweaks to make it just right. Still, I’m super excited to be actually putting it together. A large number of actors have done some amazing work, and I can’t wait to see them all virtually working together. And to get to show them a product they can be proud of!
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