Progress After Robbery

After the robbery in the media department we are finally getting back to normal. Luckily all our footage and sequences had been backed up a few days before. This meant we still had most of our work still. When we came to attempting to edit again we found that we had lost all our green screen edits. We have started to edit them again. This time we have decided to change some of the backgrounds and we want to try to make them look better. We now have new macs and cameras so we can carry on with all of our work as we were before. Although we have new macs they have different programmes so we have to edit on the older macs. When we changed computers it managed to put our whole video slightly out of sync so we had to go back and fix all of this. We finally did it when we had to change computers again and it happened again. This time I had got the hang of tweeking it to be perfect and it didn’t take too long. We finally have it all back in sync and we just have the green screens left to edit. Once we have done this we just have to make the whole video look snappy with quick edits. We will have a better idea of how it will look once we have the green screens done. The editing is taking a lot longer than we had hoped as these computers are old. Despite this we are making do and we have almost finished editing. 

Editing

Most of the editing has gone quite well. I have managed to master getting the clips exactly where we want them. Although it has been going well we have encountered quite a few problems. One of the first problems was the green screens. When editing some of these they did not edit smoothly. We found that no matter how hard we tried we either had some of the green background showing or it caused some of the hair to look fuzzy and the background to show through. We eventually had to just make do as this was a result of technical limitations. When we had finally edited all the green screen shots we liked we found that we liked different performances for certain parts of the song. We then decided to match up these bits we liked with the song. The hardest part to match up and use shots we liked was in the 3 chorus’ at the end of the song. We found that this got a bit repetitive and so we had to have lots of shots to make it appear interesting. For this we decided to break up other shots so we could have snappier edits. We spent a long time making all of our edits look snappy but still edit on the beat. As we began editing more and more of it we became fussier about the lip syncing and edits. We had to have it perfect! I think that now we have it all in sync and we are happy with it. When it came to editing the narrative we found that we had to break up the narrative and have performance shots in between. I think this was because we had to rush the pub filming and therefore it didn’t look quite right when it was all edited together. When we split it up however it worked and made sense. As well as splitting up narrative we also had one or two continuity issues but we managed to solve these as best we could. The main one was in the bedroom scene when I sat up in one shot and again slightly in the next. When filming in public places we had some problems with people walking into shots. It looked good if people were appearing natural if they walked into a shot. When filming outside KFC a man walked into the shot, looked shocked and then posed before walking out again. Although this was entertaining it meant we had to re-film this. There was also a shot in the pub when Luke walked into the back of the shot. When editing we found that we had wanted to use that exact bit however we couldn’t. Instead we had to find an alternative shot we could use. We shot the common room shots so we could use them in case we needed to, but when we came to edit we found that they did not fit with the rest of the video so we have not used them. There was one shot where I left the shot and walked up the stairs, we decided to reverse this shot so I sat down instead. We then used this to fill a small blank we had with no singing. We still have one or two blanks at the moment but we are working on something to fill these gaps. I’m pleased with how the editing has gone and how good the music video looks. I can’t wait to finish it all and see the final product!!