Testing editing techniques

With using different eras I also wanted to use the style of editing used during that era over the top. Firstly I looked at 1950s styles in Final cut pro. "1950s TV" was very successful, I feel this represented the era the best. The contrasty was a perfect as 50s TV was higher contrasted and this effect work much better than the plain black and white editing effect and it gave the old fashioned look I wanted. 1960s editing techniques were slightly more complex to copy, I firstly tried aged film, this worked well as it created the static TV look and the colours were slightly yellowed which again match the effect I wanted. I tried film grain next which was very similar to aged film just without the static break up. I prefer aged film as it gives it a more realistic effect. The 1980s was slightly more vibrant and defined that the 1960s technique, I used super 8mm which i think worked quite well, it added a more colourful effect but the image was slightly blurry and distorted. Add noise was the next effect I tried and this was my favourite, it appeared older but not hugely different from today this was the effect I needed to copy. Bad TV was an effect that caught my interest while I was looking at the static effect on the aged film. i quite like the idea of using this effect to change between eras as if the TV is being turned off or changing channels. It would work best edited over a small amount of film then cut quickly to reveal the next era.