Monday, 24 November 2014

Editing

Editing 

When editing I used Final Cut Express. Firstly I imported the videos that I filmed onto IMovie, then from there I imported them onto Final Cut Express. Then I began to drag my clips onto final cut express to edit them together. I then put on the singing shots and the music track and I lip synced them together. I did this by finding two points in both clips with the same sound, I put a marker in both of the spots and then I matched them together. This was fairly hard but in the end I managed to perfectly lip sync my shots.  For the first shot I wanted to speed it up as it was too long and I wanted the clouds to be moving fast. I did this by clicking on the chosen clip, going to modify, then speed and finally typing in my chosen speed. I did this in several other clips too, where I wanted the speed to be faster or slower than the original. In the picture below you can see that there is an option where you can reverse your clip. I also did this in order to get the effect I wanted in a few clips, for example the character walking forward, reverse the clip they walk back and then the first clip again. When editing I made sure I was editing to the beat, the shots had to be within a second long, however some shots I made them 2 seconds but it still stuck to the beat of the song as the beat is not consistent throughout the whole song.



Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Filming and Re-filming

Filming and Re-filming 

I filmed my music video from the 17th - 19th October 2014. On the 17th Daisy and I filmed the sunset that we were going to use at the beginning of the video. The following day we went up to central London to film the rest of the music video. We filmed in the iconic places around London e.g. Trafalgar Square, Thames, buses, telephone box, London eye, Tower of London, Hyde park, the London underground. We did not use all the places we were going to film in as the weather changed. We did not film in Soho, Tate Modern and St Paul's Cathedral. We used these places as they are visually interesting. When we were getting to the end of filming it started to rain, therefore we had to leave which caused us to lose footage that we could of filmed. Because of this we had to re-film to get extra footage as we did not have enough. We re-filmed on the 12th of November 2014. The central London shots were filmed by Daisy Hill and I filmed all the shots of the woods and we took turns filming in the dancing shots and the shots in the playground.





Storyboard

Storyboard

I made a storyboard of the shots that I was going to use in my final piece. I did this to get an understanding of what it would look like and how many shots I would need to take in order to fit the speed of my song. The song required me to take over 180 shots. On my storyboard I drew a variety of different shots e.g. from different angles, long shots, medium shots, close ups.


Thursday, 13 November 2014

Risk Assessments

Risk Assessments 

There are many risks i may come across when filming:

Weather: When filming I had to chose a day where it was not raining and it was fairly sunny so the footage was nice. If the weather is wet there is a risk that the actor may fall and injure themselves and also the camera may get wet which means that it could break.

Locations: The locations that Daisy and I are filming in are very busy. This makes it harder for us to move around London. As there are many people it will be hard to keep them out of our shots when we are filming. Public transport is busy in all hours of the day which means that we may lose each other which is another risk therefore we have to stick to each-other.