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.

Zoom blur effects

After trying various effects on a certain shot to no avail, our teacher suggested an effect called Zoom Blur. We tried it out and it works quite well, much better than the other effects did anyway!

Zoom Blur effect working well

The amount of effects used in our music video is very minimal as we wanted to keep everything nice and natural looking with a everyday feel about it all. The use of green screen is needed due to some of the shots we wanted like setting fire to a moving picture. The chance for a zoom blur came about during editing and looks like it was meant to be there from the start!

Editing on FRIDAY 13th!!!!!!! =O

Our lesson on the first Friday 13th of the New Year started badly and went on giving us bad luck!!!

Beth got in contact with Bronwyn and Mart to pass on the bad news that she was going to be off the lesson as she was ill.

Throughout the lesson we had many problems with the Mac and iMovie crashing and not working as normal. After a while and a fix, the Mac started to work normally again and we managed to edit the first minute to the beat and with lip syncing. It took ages to do but was worth it as that first minute looks really good....well we think so anyway!

Editing

Todays lesson Beth couldn't be with us as she had a trip with film studies. So we had to edit without her. We checked that the green screen worked with the photo on the walls. It did work but the green bottles at the bottom of the shoot was reacting with the effect. Although we didn't do as much editing as we would have liked to as we discussed problems and ideas, which is helpful as when we edit together we should be able to sort them out quicker.

First lesson back....

We started back at college last week from having the Christmas brake. First lesson back we uploaded all the footage we recorded in the holiday. Then started editing the clips putting clips in order and getting rid of any clips we didn't need.

Filming = success!

Today we finally managed to get all our filming done as planned. Unfortunately, Mart was unable to make it as he had a prior engagement but we decided to film without him as we were concious of getting too close to the deadline. We filmed the whole of the performance scenes, the park scenes and the ending in an hour which we were really pleased with. Overall we ended up with 12 minutes worth of footage (although at least half is probably bloopers! :)) We were really pleased with how everything went and glad to get inside out of the cold when we were finished. A great start to the new year media-wise :D