Editing Overview

Over the last few weeks we have been working hard on our music video and also on our CD covers and magazine advert.

With our music video we have added transitions on it between clips (such as cross dissolve and fade to black). Transitions were added to create a cleaner cut between certain scenes. We have also added effects like soft focus. Soft focus was added to some of our scenes because of the sympathetic, vulnerable and sad connotations it gave to our scenes (those connotations are suitable as our song is about a failing relationship). During the editing we also learnt how to add coloured backgrounds to our greenscreen scenes. The 'Chroma Keyer' technique was slightly difficult to learn/use at first but we eventually mastered it.
A certain issue we had when editing was making sure that the scenes which had lip syncing in them matched the audio as they went along. This was particularly difficult and frustrating at times because we were determined to make sure that the lip syncing was perfect (getting the lip syncing right meant that, at times we had to rearrange footage (in terms of position on the timeline) as well as reducing some of the time lengths for other scenes on the timeline using the razor balde tool).

We have also had to alter some of the editing/scene plans we intended to do (such as having a greenscreen background with lemons in one scene). This alterations were due to issues such as: not having sufficient time to record certain scenes and thus having to replace the missing footage with other footage (such as extract scenes from the lip syncing run throughs) that had already been recorded but not used previously in the music video and missing planned filming days due to a lack of thorough communication or attendance from group members.

Two weeks ago we also had to film some new 'last minute' footage (such as the swinging scenes) because we realised that we did not have enough 'decent' footage which gave the video wide variation. For example, if we had not recorded the new last minute footage that we used in our music video, then chances are that the music video would have been mainly dominated by the greenscreen lip syncing scenes that we recorded earlier in the project, rather than having a variation of scenes.