The Editing Process

 Now that we have got all of our filming footage from the first and second day of shooting at the Stamford Arts Centre we will need to edit the footage to complete the video. The editing process takes a long time and a lot of concentration. We will be editing on Jamie's Mac using the program Final cut pro. Last year we used i movie to edit our Thriller and this worked well but this year we think that we will get a higher quality music video if we use Final cut pro. As with any editing process it will need to be carefully managed so that everything is in order and in sync. If one little thing was moved in the editing process then the whole song would go out of sync and not be as professional as we want. The difference with editing on Final cut pro is that you get a more crisp and proffessional finish with a lot more transitions and effects.

Shoot day 1 and 2 Evaluation

This is an evaluation for the first shoot day for our A2 music video. As you already know the location we were heading towards was the Stamford Arts Centre and when we got their with the 2 cars full of equipment we could have no complaints as the hall being the ball room was very big and spacious. When we got there we started to set up all the equipment and include a time lapse during the setting up period.When everything was ready we got everyone in place and began to film. We decided to use 2 cameras to film with in lots of different angles to vary all of the shots. There was a major hick up in our plans though as we found out that a lot of our footage was out of focus. Another problem was that we did not use enough camera angles so the editing would not be as fast as we wanted. All this, meant that we needed to plan very hard for the 2nd day of shooting we had available to make sure that it was a success.

To achieve this we decided to organise a proper storyboard/script to guide us through the whole song so that we can have the plan when editing to carefully place all the footage together in the right order. We also needed to ensure the footage was in focus so this led to us using the manual focus as the camera would often go out of focus on auto because the band members were moving so much. There were a few little problems on this day though as 2 of our original band members could not make it for the second day of the shoot due to work and school commitments. This meant that we needed to get a new drummer and bassist. In the end we did and we got Zander on the bass and Joel's step dad Mark on the drums. They were suitable replacements but the only issue was that the old footage that was in focus from the first shoot day was now going to be useless as it had shots of the old band members in them. We could use some though that only contained Joel and Jamie. Other than this little issue everything went perfectly on the second day as we kept to the storyboard plan and managed to come away with some really impressive footage. All we need to do now is edit the footage by sticking to the plan that was made. A copy of this storyboard/script can be found on the blog and you can see the detail we went into to get the perfect footage.