This is a form of recap and analysis of what I have done so far.
Colour Correction
I have used colour correction videos to improve the look of the footage I shot. Some of the clips had a colour cast and I removed this with colour correction filters. Here is an example demonstrating this:
On the left is the original footage but just with levels adjusted. It is very red, which does not reflect how it should look. On the right is the colour corrected footage. His skin is much more natural looking and the door is more green which is more in keeping with the actual colour of the door.
Levels Adjustments
My footage was very dark so I had to make a lot of adjustments to the footage to make it look more appealing and more like the morning than night. I used brightness & contrast filters as well as the '3-Way Colour Corrector' filter to increase the highlights and shadows, as well as adjusting the midtones. Here is an example:
On the left is the original footage and on the right is the adjusted footage. The filters have really made an improvement in visibility and makes it match some of the other footage in the same room which is at a similar brightness level. I have still retained the contrast with strong blacks under the bed while making the main parts light enough to see properly.
Time Remapping/Speeding Up Video
To make the video feel faster paced I sped the clips up by varying amounts (120 - 250%). Sometimes this was because I wanted to fit more of the process in to the short amount of time I had given to some of my clips because it would feel like it was cut off. It also makes this feel faster and more urgent, adding to the meaning of the video. This is much slower than a time lapse video but still shows a process faster than naturally possible.
Audio Noise Removal
Most of the audio I recorded contained noise which was distracting and made the sound cuts more obvious and hard than I wanted them to be. Using Audacity I was able to remove the noise from my sound effects and re-export them ready to be imported in to my project now clean and free from noise.
Pitch Adjustment
I had to speed up certain sounds for my video and this shifted the pitch higher so I had to make some adjustments to lower it. In the case of the brushing teeth I had written notes on my thumbnails about how I wanted each cut to have a different pitch starting with mid, low, then high. I was able to achieve this very well and I think the variations in pitch really seperate the 3 clips that might otherwise seem repetative.