Editing Diary
Monday 9th October.
Editing process begins.
After collecting my first pieces of footage, the children and the green screen mission control center, I began editing the evening of the green screen shoot day. I placed the song in the audio bar, and focused on editing pieces of footage featuring the children from the space shoot into the verses, ensuring the cuts are quick, consistent, and on beat. The chorus was most difficult, as each line is roughly 0.6s long, and it was incredibly tedious and tricky to edit long clips so finely. I also decided I didn't like having just one actor for Mission Control, so will organise a re shoot to solve that issue.
Wednesday 11th October.
Re Shoots and second editing session.
My media teacher Mr Escott kindly offered his acting skills to my video, and having an extra face in the video I think has improved the variety of the clips drastically. To edit my footage, I placed the song into the audio bar, selected clips from my imported footage after finding the correct line, then muted the song to trim the imported clip perfectly. I then un-muted the song, and placed the clip over it, syncing with the lyric, and listened closely to ensure it was in time with the song and perfectly in sync, I would continue this process roughly 7-10 times per clip.
To edit the green screen, I placed a royalty free video of the Kennedy control center on my timeline, then added the green screen footage over the video as a cutaway; then I selected green screen from the drop down bar, and tidied up and shadows, adjusting the softness accordingly. There are a few issues regarding green reflections in eyes that need to be polished.
I have edited for at least an hour every day since 11/10/17.
Saturday 21st October.
New footage, new editing.
I did some extra filming in my school music department on 20/10/17, collecting footage of a year 10 GCSE class playing instruments that may look cool in the video, particularly during the bridge section of the song. I have the whole of half term to play around with the footage, as so far I'm not keen on the quality of it, and may do a re shoot when I return to school. I also re-watched the original music video and remembered that they visually type the lyric 'Go!' on screen as the word is said; I have ran a poll on my social media to see what my potential audience thinks about using that technique in my video, however, the results are roughly 60/40, so that might be an idea I have to experiment a bit more on.
Editing process begins.
After collecting my first pieces of footage, the children and the green screen mission control center, I began editing the evening of the green screen shoot day. I placed the song in the audio bar, and focused on editing pieces of footage featuring the children from the space shoot into the verses, ensuring the cuts are quick, consistent, and on beat. The chorus was most difficult, as each line is roughly 0.6s long, and it was incredibly tedious and tricky to edit long clips so finely. I also decided I didn't like having just one actor for Mission Control, so will organise a re shoot to solve that issue.
Wednesday 11th October.
Re Shoots and second editing session.
My media teacher Mr Escott kindly offered his acting skills to my video, and having an extra face in the video I think has improved the variety of the clips drastically. To edit my footage, I placed the song into the audio bar, selected clips from my imported footage after finding the correct line, then muted the song to trim the imported clip perfectly. I then un-muted the song, and placed the clip over it, syncing with the lyric, and listened closely to ensure it was in time with the song and perfectly in sync, I would continue this process roughly 7-10 times per clip.
To edit the green screen, I placed a royalty free video of the Kennedy control center on my timeline, then added the green screen footage over the video as a cutaway; then I selected green screen from the drop down bar, and tidied up and shadows, adjusting the softness accordingly. There are a few issues regarding green reflections in eyes that need to be polished.
I have edited for at least an hour every day since 11/10/17.
Saturday 21st October.
New footage, new editing.
I did some extra filming in my school music department on 20/10/17, collecting footage of a year 10 GCSE class playing instruments that may look cool in the video, particularly during the bridge section of the song. I have the whole of half term to play around with the footage, as so far I'm not keen on the quality of it, and may do a re shoot when I return to school. I also re-watched the original music video and remembered that they visually type the lyric 'Go!' on screen as the word is said; I have ran a poll on my social media to see what my potential audience thinks about using that technique in my video, however, the results are roughly 60/40, so that might be an idea I have to experiment a bit more on.
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