Rough cut

The rough cut for the music video we are making.

editing

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editing

In today's lesson, we carried on from where we left off,we added more base tracks to our current selection.
The hard parts of editing today was that our artist started to rap faster during the song, so it was difficult to align it correctly to the song. We managed align most of them and we begun cutting them. There will be a cut every beat, and for some sections, the cut comes after two beats.

Unable to film in the recording studio

Unfortunately we were unable to book the recording studio in time in order for us to film with the artist I there. And this was a prominent part of our storyboard and now we have to scrap the idea, so as a group we have decided to stick with the rest of the storyboard and to miss out the shots of the artist in the recording studio.

Thoughts on editing

We have begun the editing process and there are good points and some bad points of the process. 

• The pros are our group have a significant amount of footage, so we'll have a lot of base tracks and it would give the music video more movement as there'll be a variety of locations and angles.Within the first 10-20 seconds, we have used more than 5 base tracks and a number of scene shots. 
• We are editing to the beat, after every beat the camera cuts to a new shot so that is going well. 
• The music is in sync with most of the base tracks.
• One disadvantage is that some of the base tracks are going to fast so its difficult to line it up with the MP3  our group has countered this by slowing down the footage so its perfect. 
• Another disadvantage is the transitions we were using for the opening shots went to fast so we've had to slow down the opening shots too to get the effect we were looking for. 

Overall, I think we have done well for the opening stages of the music video, and we hope to add filters and effects once we have completed the rough cut. 

location changes

We had to limit the number of locations we were supposed to film in because we had problems with getting permission to film in certain locations such as Alexandra Palace. And due to the weather we had to cancel some of our planned filming sessions, which was as Carneby Street and China Town. This was a big problem for us as a group as we all decided to film at these locations. But we had filmed nearly 15 base tracks at the location we were able to film at and so we had more than enough footage to start editing.

editing rough cut 1

In this picture, we were checking to see if the video was in sync with the song. 

Going through the footage, we labelled the footage we would use for our base track,.

random editing shot

We also looked at the footage we wouldn't use as base tracks to see if we could add any other shots of the artist.

Viewing the base tracks