Editing Our New Footage

When we had completed the filming on the 11th November we started further editing on the 13th. To incorporate our new footage into the existing edited material posed some problems as the latter was narrative-based and we had to rearrange the clips to make it look fluid and polished.

Not only did we include clips of us singing, but we had to include clips of Matt lip-syncing to the music. We filmed the lip-syncing in several venues across the college to provide variety and more material for editing. However, as we had started after college, it soon got too dark to film. Luckily, we found a flood-lit area which allowed us to continue filming and had the bonus of giving a nice golden effect to our footage. - Jon.

Shooting Finished

Finally, we have finished shooting what we need to complete the project and as a group we feel extremely satisfied with what we have come up with. The performance based shooting, which admittedly got off to a shaky start, produced some amazing shots near the end and the photography on some of the final shoots was, quite stunning.

Now we rely on the editing to make the video as good as it can be. All members of the group, have at some point said "we'll leave that to editing" so it should be a major turning point in the eventual end product.

CCTV Footage

Jon thinks that there are ways we can put CCTV footage in our video. Although much of it is not high quality, CCTV can be found on the internet and therefore is already in the public domain. Provided our sources are credited, perhaps at the end of the video, he doesn't think usage of CCTV will be a problem.

Examples can be got from sites such as this:



Another site is: http://www.cctvfootage.com/watch/

We could decide what subset of footage we want e.g. football violence, car crime, burglary etc and search for that.

Word Cloud

Blogger does label clouds as standard, but this is not very informative about the contents of the blogs. So Jon decided to copy and paste the entire text blog into Word, then select all the text and copy into Wordle.net. The image was altered before being captured and imported (using printscreen) into Irfanview where it was edited to provide only the word cloud and saved as a jpeg and inserted above. The major words are music, video and editing, which at least shows that our blogs appear to focus on a relevant theme!

Marking

In todays session we were given the aspect of our video on which we will be marked on. We will do our best, if even through the means of editing, to make sure we meet this requirements;

• Ability to hold a shot steady, where appropriate
• Framing a shot including and excluding elements as appropriate
• Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate
• Shooting material appropriate to task set
• Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting objects and setting
• Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
• Using varied shot transitions, captions and other effects selectively and appropriately
• Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task

Roughcut Editing

Jon's thoughts about editing our roughcut:

1. we had problems uploading the track into final cut express. as a result we had trouble editing in time to the music

2. we had a temporary "work around" which was to play the music on iTunes at the same time as we did the editing

3. we managed to synchronise the narrative footage to the music using a variety of transitions e.g. by using fade ins/fade outs and slowing or speeding up certain clips of film

4. because we had to allow gaps in the video where performance-based clips will be inserted, the rough cut at certain points appears to be disjointed.

Video of "Arcade Fire"

Jon thinks it would be a good idea to follow something along the lines of the Youtube videos "Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire:










These videos have features we might want to include:

1. part of our video will be a live performance, so the Glastonbury video may be relevant

2. we could be influenced by these videos in our style of filming, such as using different camera angles (perhaps using more than one camera, or editing to give that impression). I think we could use pan and zoom features of the camera to give us material to link together such as wide angle and close-up shots

3. the transitions also need to be obvious as they are in these videos where band members change instruments e.g. the front drummer/tambourine switching to the accordion.

Rough Cut Analysis

Sadly we didn't get filming finished in one day, so we shall make a start on the editing process. Because some of the shots were badly executed eg. in one the camera bag is visible, we may have to rerun some of the shots. The editing may take some time, especially if we want to include some stills and CCTV footage. We will need to investigate if we can use CCTV footage due to (a) privacy laws and (b) copyright.