My overview of editing process
Our production schedule wasn't as detailed as it could've been, as it only included the dates in which we'd be filming certain scenes. There wasn't any clear time period that we'd assigned to editing, however I feel like we're now back on right track.
My group and I had all of our footage on the timeline except we replaced Hampstead Heath with St Pauls Cathedral but the actual footage we had did not agree with all members of our group hence why we needed to add scenes and different locations. We finished our filming a lot later than we expected to and so we have less time to edit.
The production schedule states that we were meant to started filming on Friday 23rd October, which we did which was basic area shots. The footage that would be dominating our music video the Alexandra base track of our main artist was filmed the following week through the half term. By doing this we had the majority of our footage out of the way on this day.
Our production schedule was only a rough guideline and although we stated we would film the Oxford/Piccadilly Circus scene on Tuesday 27th October, we were unable to film then and so we spent the time we would've been filming, editing instead. This set us ahead an hour and a half and by the end of that lesson, we'd imported all of our footage into Adobe Premiere Pro, decided what we'd keep and which shots were not so good. We'd also begun moving our base tracks into the timeline. This is always a major part of editing and it takes a lot of time to sort through the footage, so I feel like we got a lot done.
If anything, I find that this worked out better than our initial schedule would have done, as we found a more appropriate day to film what we intended to and allowed ourselves a lot more time to film this, which should hopefully be reflected in the quality of our footage as we put more thought into it.
All of the footage we'd compiled over the course of the half term was all imported into Adobe Premiere Pro on our first three hour lesson back and so by the end of that lesson each clip had been named, sorted, put on the timeline and we started syncing the base tracks to the music.
We're now going to create a new production schedule; one that reflects exactly what we've done in terms of both filming and editing, including each date and what happened in the editing session in detail.
Currently, we've completed and uploaded our rough cut and we're simply fine-tuning our footage. By this I mean going through it and ensuring that it's all appropriate - deleting clips that have a lot of dead space in them or where Aurora (our main artist) is mumbling and the lip singing doesn't look as good as it could be.
The media technician helped us by showing us how to do some of the specific effects we desire for our music video. All that we'll have to do is implement that, so adding in the effects and re-watching the music video several times to figure out what we could change and make better.
Some of the strengths that we've come up to do with our editing at the moment are that we have a variety of footage to pick from and a good performance to work with.
A few weaknesses that we've found are that our music video is that the artist does not have to be singing through as it is too repetitive also we need a more clear vision in terms of the sequence of our clips.
We've actually changed a lot in regards to our storyboard. Our whole concept is the same however we also filmed Aurora singing in another location as we didn't have enough footage as we needed full base tracks.
We still have all of the same shots that we were planning to use, however the order has just been re-arranged a little.
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