EDITING MUSIC VIDEO

On this page, I have posted some evidence and materials to do with the editing of our music video. It was my responsibility to do all the editing, in which I knew that this process was not going to be easy, due to the multitude of elements we wanted to include into our music video, as well as the variety of shots that we had filmed for each scene. A lot of my decisions were down to my experience in editing videos, as well as my proficiency in Sony Vegas, which was the main program I used for the edit of our music video. The entire editing process was PC based, which I felt a lot more comfortable with.

Below, is a gallery of 182 screenshots of the various stages I took when editing the music video, from the initial organisation of clips, all the way to the rendering of the final edit. I have inserted a short description of the process I was undertaking, for each screenshot.

EDITING MUSIC VIDEO

DIGIPAK CREATION

PRODUCTION CONTENTS PAGE

FILMING: TIME LAPSES

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002) Preparing Clip for motion tracking.png

003) Choosing what to mask with Mocha.png

004) Drawing object to track.png

005) Creating overlay to improv accuracy of track.png

006) Placing test over tracked footage.png

007) Project to create jpeg image sequence.png

008) Tracking shot features with Bojou.png

009) Tracking features close to the ATM.png

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Separate from our main shoots, we needed to film some shots in front of a green screen. This was for the masks guy’s appearance on the ATM, as well as for the Southbank Terrace Projection scene, where the masked guy would be projected onto the wall of the adjacent building. Below is a gallery of some photos that I took during this filming process, and below that is a short video, where I explain the process, and some of the decisions that I made with the set up.

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Below are 6 test clips, which I have rendered at different stages of the edit, to allow me to check if there were any errors in the clips, in terms of continuity errors, or editing mistakes, such as clips not matching actions accurately. These tests also allowed me to view the clips in full HD quality, as during editing, I cannot efficiently do this, due to a limit to my RAM capabilities. The performance hall scenes was the first group of clips that I edited, followed by the entire Day 3 shoot, and then placing the Day 1 footage into the free spaces left in the video timeline. Below is the Performance Hall scene 1 section that I have edited, as a test clip:

Below is the Performance Hall scene 2 section that I have edited, as a test clip:

Below is the Intro - Performance Hall scene 3 section that I have edited, as a test clip:

Below is the Performance Hall scene 4, Dance Off scene 1 and 2 sections that I have edited, as a test clip:

Below is the Contingency Scene all the way up to the ending of the video that I have edited, as a test clip:

Below is the ATM intro scene that I have edited, as a test clip, highlighting the audio, and how it needs to be replaced with the audio that Amid and I recorded when revisiting the location, with a boom microphone and recorder:

Below is a video that I have put together, comparing the final edit of our music video, against the storyboards that we created prior to the shoots. The results show that our music video is very identical to what we had planned for, in terms of the locations that we used, as well as the shot types used.

Below this, is another video that I have put together, which shows a split screen of our final video, against a version without colour correction. This video helps to illustrate the difference between using colour correction, and not using it. It also shows how the colour correction has improved the aesthetic value of the shots, as well as how the effect on the audience of each shot was improved. For example, the ATM intro scene consists of a warm and dreamy look, which suggests that the girls are in some sort of alternate reality, or in a dimension where out of the ordinary events are going to unfold, foreshadowing the course of the music video, which would not have been possible, without colour correction being applied.

Below is the image that I have selected to be the music video thumbnail, alongside Amid and Trenay. We have chosen this thumbnail as a pose to another frame, was we feel that it beautifully summarises our video, without giving too much away. Danella’s face being half lit, is similar to that of the Digipak where half her face is coved with a white mask, which suggests her journey throughout the music video, battling between her identity, eventually conforming to, and becoming one of the masked entities. I further discuss the effectiveness of this frame being our video thumbnail in my second evaluation question, which I answered together with Amid and Trenay.