Editing last parts of music video

Firstly, we needed to make sure that for the first chorus there is  a shot of me singing which we replaced with a previous one of me singing 'suddenly I see' as this is a convention which we need to adhere to. We didn't want to repeat this shot more than once so we extended out another shot where we are spinning around, as this involves movement in the shot it does not slow down the pace so we are all happy with this change.

 I changed one of the 'suddenly I see' sections to build up the pace more by including more pictures infront of the previous shot as it is quite slow and we needed to build more pace on these sections as they are the chorus.

I also changed another one to more cars driving past which has been sped up to give it more pace, the previous shots were too slow and didn't look right so we are all happy with the change that we have made here. 

The section where there is a montage of images, the effect has been removed to speed up the pace of it as the effect slowed it down. 

We included the text for the name of the band and the titles but we need to move this around and also include the record label too, which will make it look a lot more realistic. I've moved around the text and also changed the font so that it is coherent with the digipaks. 

This can now be exported and we can put it onto social networking websites such as facebook and twitter so that we can get more feedback from outside people. This will be really helpful because we can get an outsiders perspective on our music video as they will not be aware of the genre so it will be interesting to find out wether this is portrayed to people. We can also all use the feedback individually in our evaluations. If there are any major recurring issues that are spoken about in our feedback we will discuss in changing certain aspects but at the moment we are very happy with the way that the music video looks, and with the feedback that we have already got from teachers and also people in our class.

Editing

Today a lot of changes have been made to the music video in order to speed up the overall pace of it. For example, there is a jump cut of us walking and inbetween the shots we have included holly playing the guitar. From doing this is speeds up the pace of the music video and makes it less boring and more visually exciting to watch. 

 Another part where I included more footage is the scene where we are in the arcade and some of the shots are quite long. Instead more shots have been included such as the following screen shots. It speeds up the pace of the song and also corresponds with the song too making it look a lot better!

Leanne mentioned to us for one of the singing sections the footage is too long and it doesn't fit in well with the overall pace as it slows it down a lot. We decided to use lots of shots for this section of older singing footage and cut different sections of it and put them all together. We think that it looks really good and also adds to the overall pace of the video which is what we have been advised to do.

We still need to include the titles in the music video, which can be easily done, and also include more pictures. We like the idea of having a montage of lots of images in the video but we need to workout how to go about it to make it fit in well with the video. By doing this is makes it seem a lot more fun and relates well to the genre of the video.

I have experimented with different effects on the pictures and there is one called 'channel map' which dissolves the pictures into each other. However I am going to look and see if there are other ones which might relate better to our music video.

Editing

We have shown Leanne our music video and asked for her feedback on it. She has said that she likes the beginning and ending of the music video however there are some shots which are held for to long which slows down the overall pace of the music video.
I also agree with this, for example in the music video during the 'dance' section it needs to be faster and more fun. I also agree with this as the overall tone needs to be quicker and we are going to achieve this by including more shots and cutting parts in the video too. We don't need to reshoot anything however we do need to remove some shots as they don't look correct in the position they're in.

Editing

Yesterday and today we have all been editing the music video. Yesterday Holly & Megan edited the new footage into the music video and today I have edited the colours and changed the order of some shots and also replaced some of the shots, and we have finished our second draft.

I changed the shot of us walking towards the camera as the colour of it really didn't fit in well with the music video, so I changed it to an older one of us walking away from the camera as the colour is a lot warmer.

I also changed around some of the positions of the shots to make it match the beat of the song better, for example I changed round the shot of the london eye and the shadow image as the pace of the song works better when they are switched around. We are really happy with the progress that we have made and we like the way that all of the shots have a similar warm feel to them. We will show this to people and ask them on any more changes that they feel we need to do.

Changes for the music video

These shots need to be changed as they are repeated too much throughout the video. We are still going to keep them but we need to film more shots of me singing the chorus so that it doesn't look repetitive or boring.
Also, we need to reshoot the first section of the music video, as I need to be singing it.

 This part of holly is also going to be changed to meg, as holly is the guitar player and meg is going to be shown as the background singer.

People really liked the shot where we took a 'selfie' as it portrays the video as really fun and relates to the genre of the band. People think that we should use more of these in the beginning of the video as the 2nd half is alot more fun than the first.

Editing

Nobody said that there was a problem with this section but now looking at it the colour isn't correct and also it doesn't fit in well with the location. We took shots up London of cars that we felt would look a lot better so I have edited them into the music video. 

. A lot of people mentioned that the colour for the music video needed to be edited to keep consistency throughout the video so today I have edited the video by changing the colours of certain parts, for example the fire section. I have edited this section by changing the colours that makes it look more warmer and fits in better with the music video. 

Editing

I have converted the clips from the filming that we done on Sunday and Monday and me and Megan have split the editing process between us. There are some parts that we have changed as we feel that some shots are more suited to the overall feel of the music video. There are a few shots that needed to be included which Holly is going to do but that majority of the editing has been finished today and we are happy with the overall look of the music video.

Editing

Today I converted the clips that we filmed yesterday and I also took out the 'why the hell it mean so much to me?' section as we reshot this. I also tried lightening one of the shots as it was really dark and now it fits in a lot better. We are all editing different sections of the music video so that we all get to have a chance at editing, however we are all discussing the editing together.

15th January 2014

Journal: 

Today we filmed at Megan's house, we re-filmed the section where I sing 'why the hell it mean to much to me?' and we are really happy with the way it looks as it's a lot brighter and more comfortable. We also filmed other parts where we run to the camera but it was getting dark so we might have to reshoot or film it again. We filmed the other sections where I need to sing and of the cars driving past which we will speed up. We still have more filming to do, we are going to London on Sunday and we have the whole day to get lots of shooting and locations done. I am quite happy with the progress we are making and we are going to edit. what we shot today, tomorrow.

Editing Process

Today I converted the clips that we filmed yesterday at Danson and we reviewed the ones we liked as a group. As I haven't done any editing yet I done the editing for today and we are going to split it equally so we all get a part in doing it as a group. It was quite difficult to fit in the lip singing in with the music and there were parts that we had to speed up for it to fit in. Overall I am quite happy with the singing section apart from one part.

There is a lyric which I am singing as the lead singer 'why the hell it mean so much to me' and the shot that we have for it doesn't work well with the rest. We are going to retake this section as it occurs a lot throughout the music video and I feel that it needs to be more coherent with the rest. Either we're going to do a closer shot or a further one. 

Editing

We have converted the music file into the specific conversion as it was in the wrong one and it sounded really bumpy but now we have changed it. The editing process has started and we are going to divide the editing between us so that we all contribute to the editing process as we all want to do it (instead of one person specifically doing it.) After looking at the editing that holly has started I feel that we should change one of the shots (the one spinning round) because even though it is 'fun' it looks quite serious and I feel that something more silly would be more suitable. I'm going to look over different shots and choose one that I think would be more suitable.