editing

When we reviewed all the footage in the editing suite, we chose to discard  the low angle shots as parts of them were out of focus and never had the people fully in the shot due to there constant movement. As well as this we had too many long shots of the band, which lacked engagement with the audience. For this  we replaced several long shots with close ups and medium shots where the audience would be engaged. For example, after our first draft of our music video when Bennie started singing he head was down, no one could see his face and his hair was covering everything. As we felt this unengaged the audience from the very beginning we decided to re film and replace the shot with Bennie looking straight at the audience we instantly engaged them.

In order to create the narrative we had to film each part of our storyboard. Once we had done this we put all the shots in the editing software and started positioning the shots according to the story board in order for the narrative to be clear to the audience. Eg. If the video started with Gail and John the narrative would have a whole new meaning. Once we had sorted out the narrative we started swapping shots round wich fitten better with the timing of the song without changing the narative e.g. bennie walking down the street (which he does a few times).

Through out the music video we made sure when we changed shot that the cut was to the beat. We did this as it is a convention of music videos in genral and the cuts would look unnatural if they were not cut to the beat perfectly. In oder to achive this we listened to the song and looked at the visual as one and would reposition the fottage or cut it short in order for it to cut to the beat. A perfect example of this is the first couple of seconds of the song. The song starts with the drummer tapping the hi-hat (cymbal) 4 times. For each tap we had a different shot of Bennie and Gail happy together.

we played the song through speakers wile the band was performing in order to keep them in time. As the band was lip singing when we put the footage into the editing software we could only hear the song in the background. This made it easy to match up the lip syncing as we had to make sure the song in the background from recording fitted up perfectly with the music we had placed in the editing software. Due to the lip syncing task we were set at the begining of this course we were all capable of sorting the lip syncing in the video.

During editing I think that editing the performance element of the music video worked really well as we were able to edit all the shots we took into the video. As music videos have no real structure we were able to be creative with the oder in which we placed each shot as we recorded the band playing the shot a several times from different angles .

Although, I think the editing was a success if I was able to refilm and reedit, I would instruct Bennie to not move around as much as we has to discard several shots as Bennie kept hoping in and out of the frame, this was particually during the close up shots.