Editing Journal - Day One

So we have finally reached what will be the blood sweat and tears of our music video - the editing. It is so important when editing a music video, (as we have found out) that the pace and lighting and angle of the shots have to be so carefully worked out in order for it to be a success. But the good thing we didnt have to do was put it in chronological order like we did in our film. We were in a way more free to mess about and experiment with different ideas and places to put different shots.

So during day one, the goal was to upload all our footage that we had shot from dayone of our shooting and just place the very bare bones of our music video in creating a skeleton to work with. The video upload was a success, but as youcan imagine took forever! So as we were waiting we decided to watch back on all our footage. One thing that we did notice with this, is the the fact that some of our shots came out really dark in Final Cut Pro eventhough it came out really bright on to camera. This meant that we definatly had to go back to Langley Park to re-shoot some things.

Once we had finished uploading our footage, we decided to focus on the main goal that we had set for today and place in some shots that we definatly knew we wanted. We found this really challenging as we hadn't uploaded the mp3 of 'This Beauty' into Final Cut, so we were just guessing most of the way.

By the end of this session we had completed the following:

-Uploaded all our footage we have so far

-Looked over our footage and found areas and shots that we would have to shoot again

-Made a rough skeleton of shots that we knew we definatly wanted in there

Editing Textual Analysis - Go Back ~ Marketa Irglova

 Title: Go Back

Artist: Marketa Irglova

Director: Unknown

Release Date: October 6th 2011

Genre: Folk/Indie

Intro

This song is made entirely out of reversing clips and is very effective with such simple editing  done to it. I like this music video because it challenges the conventions of its genre and I really like music video's that can tell a story.

How Many Shots Are There In The Music Video?

Surprisingly there were 49 shots in the music video which is shocking because I expected it to be more because of its type of genre. The shots tend to fade into one another almost merging but not quite. 

Where Were The Cuts In The Music Video?

When we first listened to the beat, because of the time signature being 4/4, we thought to make it even and in time the shots would cut on the beat but we found when listening to a certain layer of the music or taking a layer out, the beat sometimes cut to the rhythm of that. So technically it was still in time but in different instruments in the music. We found that the music video was full with jump cuts as it was interchanging with different scenes of objects in different stages of reversing.

Did The Music Video Shrink Or Expand?

From a first glance the music video looked like it was shrinking time because obviously the reverse sequence makes it look like its shrinking but when we looked at it again, we realised that it was indeed expanding time because the objects and actions that were happening have been slowed down like the reversal of the match lighting up and candle burning.

Editing Textual Analysis - Yellow ~ Coldplay

Title: Yellow

Artist: Coldplay

Director:  James Frost & Alex of The Artists Company

Release Date: June 26th 2000

Genre: Alternative Rock

Intro

Coldplay are a very popular band that have played all over the world and in many exciting venues. They even played in the Olympic opening ceremony which is a very big thing to do. I came across this band when I was a lot younger and I always liked the inventiveness of their music videos.

How Many Shots Are There In The Music Video?

The entire music video is one continuous shot of a performance based music video, which captures the essence and emotion of the song. The audience feel a really deep connection with the artist as he sing directly to them.There is not much at all going on in the background so this one continuous shot is just directly about this artist singing.

Where Were The Cuts In The Music Video?

Since it was just one continuous shot there were no jump cuts or cuts in general to comment about. But he did do certain things on the beat of the music like run or slow down or glance at the sea beside him. 

Did The Music Video Shrink Or Expand?

Looking at it from my point of view I think it did both as the background was changing from night to day about three or four times which obviously resembled different parts of the day. But the music video had a feel overall which made ir feel like it was expanding time because of the amount of slow motion that was used.