Today Sophie, Laura and myself arrived at school around 10.30am to begin editing our remaining footage. We had until 2.30pm although we did think we would have more time than this!
What was achieved today:
- The first and second verse and the first and second chorus. We edited them to a standard we thought was good for our first cut, but we know that there are things that need adjusting/changing.
- We created a rough version of what we want for the anti-climax part of the song. This will most definitely be changed.
- We came up with a list of things that we need to do in terms of completing the first cut.
The first verse
There wasn't much to do for this chorus because in a previous editing session it had been nearly completed. The only thing left to do was add in a reaction shot of Joe before the chorus started. We pulled the footage onto the left-hand editing screen then pulled onto the editing reel what we wanted by pin-pointing the start of the reaction shot and the end. This makes editing a lot easier and quicker. We pulled the shot straight into the video as we had already prepared a space for it. We were trying to find a transition to put in between the reaction shot and start of the chorus so the first transition we tried was a zoom. This worked really well so we decided to keep it as it linked the story to us singing.
First Chorus
Our idea for the chorus was to have the editing quick paced and flow well. We thought a series of shorter shots would create this effect nicely. We made sure each girl was shown lip-syncing individually along with the 2 group performances.
Problems we faced - lip-syncing:
Editing this section was particularly time-consuming although it was relatively simple. It took a long time to cut the footage down and put it in the right places. A problem found was that we couldn't seem to go my lip-syncing right. Some of the lip-syncing looked right then the rest didn't, I think it was due to me lip-syncing too fast rather than the editing. We came up with the idea to reduce the speed only slightly to 97% and this worked as the lip-syncing then looked perfect.
Second verse
The flashbacks are introduced in the second verse which makes editing a lot harder and timely! We thought to make it easier, we should edit the verse together first using only the shots of us lip-syncing (without the flashbacks) then once that was done, decide where we wanted to flashbacks and simply place them where we want them.
How we inserted the flashbacks
We put the flashbacks in between Laura's 2 shots and Sophie's 2 shots to break them up a bit and make the verse look even without having shots longer than others. We had the flashbacks on the left-hand side screen so we could see them all. For the first flashback we choose the one where Emily pushes Joe as he tries to start an argument with her. We dragged this onto the reel then used the razor tool to cut it down. We dragged the black and white effect on top which automatically makes it black and white then after a lot of adjustments we positioned it in between Laura's shots. We then did the same for the next flashback which was the one where Joe is sitting on the floor, this was placed in between Sophie's 2 shots. The next one used was the one of Emily looking longingly out the window, this shot isn't particularly interesting so we didn't want to have it for too long therefore it is shorter than the others. At the end of the verse the words 'passion to hate' are sung dramatically so we decided to have a strong intimidating flashback to represent the words. We chose the one where Joe punch's part of the wall, it also finishes the verse off nicely.
This verse is very well edited as we really wanted each shot to change when the beat hits. By being this particular I think it has made the verse look very professional.
Second chorus
In the second chorus we decided to include the choreography scenes, flashbacks and each of the girls lip-syncing individually.
Because the beginning of the chorus starts with Joe still punching the wall (carried on for the second verse) it meant we had to use the razor tool to cut into the first bit of singing. This wasn't a problem as we easily able to put the shot of Sophie lip-syncing afterwards. Using the razor tool we then cut out sections in the chorus where we wanted the flashbacks to be - we decided on 3.
The first flashback we decided to use was the one of Emily sitting by the fireplace on the phone crying. This was an effective flashback as it is quite dramatic and comes onto screen as the the lyrics 'I get high when you're making me weak' are sung. For the next flashback section we decided to use the ariel shot of Emily and Joe fighting down below. This shot was very long so we thought that cutting into 3 sections and putting them together as jump cuts (we had used this technique through-out from the beginning) would look very effective. We also slowed them down to 50%. This sequence of shots are my favourite as they are interesting to watch and shows a passing off time making it seem like they have been arguing for a long time.
The anti-climax
This part of the song was very problematic for us in terms of what footage we have and editing it together! Here are the problems we faced:
- The main shot which we initially wanted to be continuous was not and had to be edited together - which longed the sequence out.
- A lot of the walking shots had no meaning and didn't represent anything. They were also not framed well and the lighting was poor.
- When we reversed played the copied sequence - it looked very slow even though we had sped it up. To correct it it needed to be sped up to 200% which meant it finished way too early and we had no other footage to use to finish the anti-climax part.
Time was up after editing for over 5 hours and the school was closing. This left us with a sticky situation but we decided to just leave it how it was and return editing it when term began next week.
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