Editing the Animation

We ean into a ton of problems when editing project 2. Kristen and I tried to figure out how to brighten the image. We found the brightness but all it did was lighten the foreground, making the image worse than it was originally. We then tried adjusting the color saturation but it didn't help either. We eventually just left it alone. The audio also didn't work once we moved it into final cut but that had to do with the settings in final cut and we were able to fix that. We found some tracks that went well with the video. We thought we would be able to transfer songs off of our ipods onto the computer but I guess there is some limitation on the lab computers that disallows that. So we had to go to plan B and choose from a couple of CD's that Kristen brought. We slowed down some of the segments and copied a couple to make it longer. We sped up the first part where the cars were passing to make it seem like they were passing by more rapidly. We mostly left everything else as it was with the exception of cutting out some bad bits where our hands were still in frame or if the camera was bumed for a couple of frames and the image jumped. We had tried to shoot some coverage in class but the close-ups were way too dark to work with so they were just left out completely. I am not sure what exactly happened with the lighting. We had one light on either side including the Fresnel. I suppose we should have used some kind of reflective material on the floor under the glass to provide some backlighting. That was our main mistake in this project. It possibly could have had something to do with what stop we were shooting at. I honestly didn't notice what it was set at but it could have been too high to let the light in.