Editing

After the production stage of our video we had 8 weeks to edit our piece. Over this time I attended the edit suite 2 afternoons per week. I used final cut pro 7, Adobe after effects and blue screen effects to create a final product. Firstly we created a first assembly closely following our digital storyboard that we uploaded into the project before the shoot day. The weeks following this final assembly were used to tweak and polish off what we had done, this included adding new shots that we filmed that we thought fitted better or were more appropriate to our storyboard, fixing shots in time with the beat of the music and generally correcting mistakes. For example, a shot of the drummer was correctly in time with the beat and was the correct shot we intended to use however he was hitting the wrong drum as there was a different drum pattern (beat) to the second chorus than the first, this kind of mistake is easily corrected and I simply scanned through the shot to the correct part of the song and cut it so that the drummer was hitting the correct drum at the correct time. After all the shots were in the right place and the correct order we looked over some of the shots that we took impulsively in any time left over on the shoot day, there were some shots that we thought were more fitting and appropriate so we placed these in the video in the place of shots that were either less attractive or had been used a lot already in the product, this was for a number of reasons, firstly because we wanted to keep the video interesting and not make it to repetitive and also some of the shots we placed in later better fitted conventions we were following, leading the eye, rule of thirds ect. After we had a line of shots that we were happy with and all agreed on we used after effects and blue screen effects to finalise the product, we altered colours, texture and also lit up the light bulbs in the performance element as we did not have them connected to power on the shoot day.