Editing - January 20th

In todays media lesson we continued to edit our music video. Unfortunately we had a few issues which took us a while to solve which meant we didn't get as much done as we had originally hoped. The issues  were only things like certain shots that jumped or just didn't look right when we juxtaposed them. We solved this problem by putting different shots in between them or using transitions. Despite the delay we are happy with how the video is looking so far. In next Tuesdays lesson (the last lesson before Thursdays deadline!) We have just got to finish the editing on the last part of the video and ensure all the lip synching is correctly lined up. One thing that we are a little worried about is a long instrumental section in the song which we are worried we won't have enough footage to fill. However, if we can't do this then we can edit the song to make it shorter. Here's hoping it all goes well! :)

17th January - Editing!

Since I was ill last Friday I missed our media lesson so I was really looking forward to seeing what Bronwyn and Mart had managed to get done. They'd edited about the first minute of the film and I thought it looked really good :) I wanted to make up for missing a lesson so we cracked on with the editing straight away. We decided that it was best to put all the clips we were using into the right order first and then cut them down before lining up the lip synching. This is because we didn't want to spend ages getting the lip synching right only to knock it all out of synch again if we changed anything. We managed to get about another minute of the film edited and also experimented with a few transitions before deciding on the "Push" effect for one of our chorus scenes. We decided this transition would be appropiate as the vocals on the song overlap so it made it look alot smoother when moving from the shot of one of our actors singing to the other. We're pleased with how everything is looking and so far and can't wait to get it finished! :)

Beth

Editting on the 17th January

Only the 17th January's lesson and 2 more lessons to go until the dead line of finishing the whole music video. Beth has got better and is well enough to come to this lesson. Although she hasn't been here for the past few lessons and has missed the editing process. It came to our advantage of her watching what we had done, not knowing what happens and be able to tell us what she thought of it (which was kind of nerve racking). She was very happy with the overall editing but wasn't to happy with the green screen of the photo zooming and blurring effect. Which we all agreed on it not working.

We started editing more of the chorus but this was quite hard to do as the lyrics overlap each other as Jenny sings over Johnny and vice versa. Getting the lip sync in time was a changeling as cutting the clips to show who's singing each line would be off the beat. So we used an effect which pushes the other one off the screen. It does work but I find it distorts you and is quite confusing so I think we should change it as I don't feel it fits in either.

Another worry I have is that I don't feel that we have enough different shots to fill the whole song out without it being to repetitive. But hopefully we'll be able to sort some of the order of the shots out.

Editting on the 13th

On the 13th January we had our 3rd media lesson to do more editing. Beth wasn't there in the lesson as she was ill. So it was hard in some ways as there was just me and Mart, we had to consider what Beths input would be and what we had discussed about editing before when making making decisions.

On the 13th we had a bit of a late start as the Mac computer we was using the program imoive kept crashing and being really slow. And as we started editing putting things in order the imove crashed and we had lost the half an hour of work to begin with so we had to keep saving after every 5 minuets.

We tried at the start by having Johnny walking to the spot and setting up of where he was going to be buskin, without the music to begin with but then have the music come in when he started playing his guitar and counting in. We tried editing all the different clips for this to work but none of the clips were right as our actor kept going wrong and we weren't counting the music in time. But instead we had a clip of a high angle shot of his feet walking on the street to fill the introduction out. This worked really well in the end as it didn't reveal who the person was. It was a mysterious way to start the intro to the song.

We managed to edit the first minuet and had to do some lip sync with song for the first time. It was quite tricky as we would move the clip just a little bit more where we would think it would fit then we would be toatally out of it. Some times it was hard which way to move the clip to get it in time with the music. But we were really lucky with getting some clips in time.

Although we had many problems with the computer I think we acumplished quite alot in the lesson as we've got the first minuet jsut about done.