Sophie, Jodie and myself arrived at school at approximately 10.30am this morning, and began to edit our remaining footage. We were asked to leave at 2.30pm - we assumed that we would have more time than this, which meant we were unable to finish the amount of editing we had planned.
What we did manage to achieve today:
1. We completed the first verse, first chorus, second verse and second chorus to a standard which we are happy with to put forward as our first draft.
2. Put together a very rough draft of the anti-climax section of the song.
3. Produce a list of what is left to do regarding our rough cut.
First Verse:
The majority of the first verse had been completed in a previous editing session, which meant there was very little left to do to complete it, the only thing we needed to do was put a reaction shot of Joe before the chorus. To do this, we pulled the footage onto the left hand side of the screen, and used the curser to pin-point the reaction shot that was best for us to use. After we chose this, we used the cutting tools to mark out the area. We then pulled it down onto the editing reel, and cut it down to fit into the designated time slot we had already prepared. We decided to put another zoom effect between this shot and the first shot of the chorus (just so the audience could establish that this was seperate from the footage of us girls).
First Chorus:
We wanted to make the chorus quick paced with our editing, so we decided to a series of shorter shots to make up the section. We did it so we all had a solo section, but we also had two seperate shots of us as a group.
Problems/Difficulties
This section was relatively simple, it was just somewhat time-consuming editing the footage down to make it cut in the right places. The only problem we came accross in this particualr section was we couldn't seem to get Jodie's lip-synching in time. Some words appeared to be occuring at the right time, but others looked a little odd. We weren't too sure how to fix it, as Jodie thought it was probably due to her lipsynching than the way we actually edited. But I then thought that maybe if we slow down the footage by a very small amount it may help it look more in place, so we reduced the speed down to 97%, and we found that this made the lip-synching fit better.
Second Verse:
The second verse is where things began to get a little more complicated as this is where the flashbacks needed to come in. Firstly, we decided it would be easier to get all the lip-synching bits in there, and then just edit them out afterwards to replace certain bits with the flashbacks. This proved to be a good idea, as it made the placing of the flashbacks much more easier as it gave us a more realistic sense of what followed.
Step-by-Step
1. We cut down the shot of Sophie's one-line close up, and pulled it across to the appropriate position on the wheel.
2. We had two alternative angles to work with for my main section of the verse, and decided that we wanted to incorporate them both. We used the first close up for the first two lines, and then cut to medium close up from the opposite angle for the second two. We felt that this worked well as there was no continuity issues.
3. We also had two alternative shots to work with for Sophies chorus, but theses were slightly different in the sense that Sophie was in two completely different positions. Again, we divided it in half, doing one line in the first medium close up and the second from the other angle. At first, this looked strange, so we definately knew we had to put a flashback to seperate these two images.
4. Using the razor tool we cut down Jodie's bridge lines, which was a close up. Together, these 6 shots made up the second verse without the flashbacks.
Adding the Flashbacks
We decided on putting the flashbacks between the transition of my first shot to my second shot, and of Sophie's first shot to her second shot.
Using the left hand screen, we viewed the potential flashback images. We cut down one where Emily pushes Joe, and he falls onto the floor. We dragged this onto the reel, and cut it down to be much shorter using the razor tool. We then selected the footage with our mouse, and dragged the black and white effect over it to make it lose its colour. After much tweaking, we positioned it in between my chnage of shots. We then used the same process of the shot where Joe is actually on the floor, and placed this inbetween Sophies two shots. Next we added the shot of Emily looking out the window (we had trouble deciding the length of this shot, as we felt it was not interesting enough to use for a long amount of time), which then followed on with a shot of Joe punching a bollard on "passion to hate", which then continues on very shortly into the chorus.
In this section, I liked the fact that we managed to edit according to the beat, whereby a lot of the shots change when the beat hits. I think this makes it look more like a proffesional product.
Second Chorus:
In this chorus we included...
1. Choreography Scene
1. Flashbacks
As mentioned, we had to use the razor tool to cut into the first bit of our singing as the shot is still on Joe punching the wall. This was easy to do and we managed to easily line the shot up so that the lip-synching was in time. We then used the razor tool to cut out the sections of the scene where we felt there should be flashbacks, in the end we took out 3. The only problem was is we had left ourselves a very long time in the actual filming for a flashback, and we wasn't sure whether it would be too long.
The first flashback we used was of Emily on her phone crying, this was good as it looked quite dramatic which fit in with the tone of the chorus. For the next longer section, we used the birds-eye shot of Emily and Joe fighting; this shot was really long, so we cut it down into 3 sections and put it together as jumpcuts (a theme which we had adapted to since editing began). This actually worked out quite well, and the obvious segregation of the 3 shots makes it more interesting to watch (and works as it symbolises a passing of time - so instead of the audience just viewing the whole lot of that footage, they see the 3 most interesting bits whilst being aware that this is a big on-going argument).
The Anti-Climax:
We experienced many problems with this particular section...
1. The shot (which we originally planned to be continuous) had to be edited together, which meant that it lost that on-running flow.
2. The shots weren't that good over-all, and didnt really portray what we wanted to portray from this section of the song.
3. When we copied the footage and then reverse played it, it appeared to be moving too slow (although we had sped it up); therefore we had to speed it up to 200% to make it look right, which then meant it finished too early over-all.
By this point, we found that we had to leave the media room for the school to be closed. This left us in quite a situation, so we left this section as it is and will return to it next week when the second term begins.
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