Editing Process

On the Monday, after our initial shoot, we started to edit from the material that we had. It consisted of the light corridor and the complex DJ set. Surprisingly, we were able to make a performance cut and it turned out to be fairly successful, also it meant that when we did shoot the rest of our music video, that it would be a lot simpler to insert bits in.

Monday the 21st of November, we shot the last two sets in order to complete the music video. We shot the dancing set and the lip sync of our lead singer in still shots, rather than the handheld that we had in our previous shoot. We had intentionally decided to shoot the artist on a dolly and a tripod in order for the beginning of our music video to have some calm and bright elements to it.

Throughout the week we were given two hours of lesson time to edit and some separately and some in two's went up to edit with the footage that we got on the Monday. In the beginning, Ben took lead and named all of the rushes to the shots and sets, which made it a lot simpler for us then to work with. The way that we edited was by trying to link up a couple of bright lip sync shots to make the beginning more still and then gradually go into the songs pace. At first, Ben had already edited around 15 seconds of the beginning and had shown us. There were a couple of shots that we said that needed to go because they didn't work and the actual cutting time was too quick for me. So, I asked ben to possibly have the first shot for half of the first sentence and it worked perfectly. Of course, there is a possibility that we might not keep it that way, but we had all agreed to keep it that way for now. 

In our song you can hear these sudden glitch-like sound and before we had even shot our music video,  Eloise had the idea using a quick editing technique to have the glitch-like sound match the glitch on the screen. When we had tried this out, it ended up looking better than we could have even imagined and ended up using it in a couple of sections throughout the song. 

Below is our performance cut :