Production - Editing Session (On Deadline Day)

Final Editing Session

One the day of the deadline day each member of the group came at different times to edit and put final touches in. We first cut up the two videos of Jessica dancing and made them interchange between the two when the beat was picking up. We were considering taking to the footage that we had taken inside the exhibition as we felt that it looked quite random. We enquired some student and teachers on what they think and whether or not we should take it how. Most of the feedback we got was that it was a very interesting shot and it looks visually interesting and gives the video a different dimension, therefore we decided that we will stick to having the shots in. 

As we used to different camera's we had to put filters on. Some footage such as the footage taken in Alexandra park and the white background needed to be brightened up as they looked too dull, so we adjusted the brightness and contrast of them. 

We also decided to place the title of the song at the start of the video as it is conventional for our artist to do so. We then added some transitions on to the title to, which made it fade in and fade out of the screen. We also added the cross dissolve tradition at the end of our music video and we wanted it to fade out when Jessica was walking away. 

Our biggest problem that we faced during this editing session was that the scenes that we wanted to use were out of frame. We didn't notice this when we were filming, as you needed to stay within a certain rectangle on the camera to avoid this. This lead to many shots cutting of Jessica's head. However, with the technicians help we were able to sort this problem out but it did take a long time to render, which lead to us wasting time. 

Through out the course of this editing session we had people looking over our work to spot if anything was out of sync, due to us seeing it all day it was hard for us to spot it, so we need a fresh pair of eyes to view it. Some shots were out of sync but with a tool we were able to fix it by just moving the clip a few frames to the left or the right, instead of moving the whole base track which could have been very time consuming and difficult to manage.