What we did Today
We managed to edit to the end of the song today, and easily detect what we had left to do in order to finish our production. Here are some of the main things we did today in terms of our editing:
1. Re-adjusted image sizes to correct framing and cut out 'bad' shots.
Whilst watching the footage through today we noticed that 3 of Jodie's shots had people in the background walking their dogs or simply walking past. We were unsure what to do with these as we felt it ruined the whole tone of the video, but then a class mate suggest we actually zoom in and drag the image to make the people in the background dissapear. We successfully did this by dragging the size of the image from the corner, and we found it worked quite well. In some instances it was not possible to get rid of the people throughout the duration of the shot, so this meant cutting the length of the shot.
2. Constructed the shoe montage and placed it in to the song.
As we had originally stated in our pitch, we wanted to colour code each girl in the group individually. We did this in a subtle way by wearing black dresses but each had individual heel colours. However, as of yet we hadn't used this in the video. So we cut down our extreme close ups of all our feet and created a quick flowing montage to establish this colour scheme.
3. Added more footage into the chorus to break up the length of it.
In our feedback we got told that a certain shot in our chorus of us all standing in a group and singing was too long, so we wanted to improve this. We selected a nice full-body shot of Sophie singing a line of the chorus and cut it down to fit in the middle of the long sequence. We found that this did really break it up and made the chorus flow better.
4. Added another flashback into the second chorus.
This originally came about from the fact that we adjusted the size of the choregraphy scene in the chorus as we felt the framing wasn't central. By doing this, however, we found that we ended up with a jump cut, as we didn't need to re-frame the whole sequence (only the last bit where we step out). This meant that we had to cut the shot with the razor tool, and change the size of the second part of the sequence - this is where the jump cut occured. So, instead of just leaving it framed incorrectly I suggested we put another flashback sequence in so that it breaks up the two shots. We chose one of Emily sitting on the stairs looking through the banister (giving the sense that she is somewhat imprisoned by this relationship).
5. Put the ending shot on the song & made audio adjustments.
We felt that the song was far too long at the end - the lyrics finish and there is about 10 seconds worth of quiet music. Instead of deciding to fill this with random shots, we decided to use an audio crossfade to make the music fade out quicker. This worked well, and to compliment this we used a final 'blooper' shot of the four of us together in Epping Forest laughing. We felt this looked nice and wasn't out of place, and decided to decrease the overall speed to 50% so it was in slow motion. This fit in well with the tone of the song but finished it on an uplifting note. We then added a dip-to-black effect at the end to close the song.
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