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