Car Scene

During My tutorial with Chris he mentioned maybe play around with Split screen for the driving scenes. I liked this idea, due to the fact that the Pigeon scene is being cut it would add a bit more depth to them driving and hopefully make it more interesting to watch from a viewers perspective. 

When researching split screens I came across a montage of all the split screens featured in Thomas Crown Affair. I found this very helpful when trying to think up compositions of the shots and used it to inspire the layout to majority of the sequence.

For the full montage, it is available here :  

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/montage-of-split-screen-sequences-from-the-thomas/view

In my previous version I liked how it cut between Isa, Luke and then Rhian. Its nice how it shows how rhian finds Luke funny for interrupting Rhian and Hugh in the front, it them shows how Luke is oblivious to his actions and then finally it shows Rhian annoyed and looking at Hugh for him to step in. I think its subtle in shows the dynamics in the group and the relationships between the characters. I made sure I still keep this layout of showing the characters in this order when creating the split screen.

As I was creating a lot of layers in this sequence, I decided it would be more organised if i was to create this sequence in a separate timeline so that at a later date if i need to shuffle and move shots/ scenes around it would't effect the complex layers of video. I called this sequence Car Scene followed by the date and time that I created it. This is so that if I need to go back to a later version I can easily select when I need to go back to.

Screenshot of Car Sequence

To make the split screen look more professional I used a Black screen and crops it down and layered it over to create the lines around each shot. This was a lengthily process but I wasn't till after I had done this, that I learnt you can create this effect using the Title Tool. You only have to simple draw the lines where you want each of them, save it then place it on top of that part of the sequence. This made my timeline a lot neater as I only needed one layer for all the lines.