Editing Progression

Yesterday (22/01/2013) myself and Daniel continued with editing our music video we had the first 30 seconds sorted with the music but within this there were some minor issues we had. We had a 'gap' of no footage at around 0.17 seconds which also fell with the first major beat in the music. Both me and Daniel knew that we couldn't leave this gap empty with just a blackout, first of all we tried to use a transition of fade to white to give the 'gap' some effect but we felt that it was too much of an important beat not to put footage on. We kept watching over the introduction we had and then realised that the clips we used, the lighting was off and we had previously used footage to show lights going on, therefore we moved the clip of the lights going off and added them into the gap. After watching this, we made the light turn off on the beat of the music and it looked much better rather than filling it in with an effect.

There were two shots that we were using which when we recorded were not 100% thought about, this was the shot of joe (our actor) unclipping the bag on the table and when he slammed his hands on the table. In order to put these shots next to each other which is what we intended to do within the video, we couldn't because a jump cut was created. Joe's hands in the clip of him opening the bag were still in shot and when we put the clip of him slamming his hands on the desk, the hands jumped to a different position which created a jump cut. Because we couldn't go out and film this again, we tried different things to overcome this, firstly we just left a gap and decided it didn't work effectivly. We then looked through all if the footage taken and decided to add in a clip of the audience members in the lecture. Firstly this clip was really short and it jumped through the 3 clips really quickly, we cut down the beginning of the last clip (hands on the desk) and made the audience clip longer which then overcome the jump cut.

            Hands in the footage at the end of the shot.

Hands changing position at the start of the next shot.

We left a gap within the two shots which didn't work effectively.

Added a clip of the audience over the top and it looked good.

We decided that the two column storyboard that we created in our planning wasn't a good piece of documentation when creating the music video. The document was good whilst we was filming as we gave it to the actors and they were able to follow what we was filming and the shots we needed but we  are now aware that during editing is has become less useful. It is apparent to us that we overestimated the amount of time we had for each section of the song and the clips we can put in. For example, the instrumental at the beginning is 18 seconds long and we suggested to put in only a couple of clips but now during editing, that time is too long for only a couple of clips so we have moved everything along, now we are unable to follow the storyboard for specific shots and times.