Editing

In this lesson my group and I carried on editing the clips that already had been used. This is because although we had clips in our music video we had not yet used effects on many of them and since music videos use lots of effects we decided to put some effects on. One effect we decided to use was the colour corrector. This is because we wanted to juxtapose the music video constantly throughout the music video to break conventions of the Ska genre of black and white. We did this at the beginning by instantly changing from the black and white squares to the clips being played. However, this time, the lead singer of the band being portrayed would change colour as she sings. However, we did not want this as a clip on its own so we used super imposition to do this. We placed two different clips of the singer singing from different angles to create the illusion that a variety of clips had been used.

Editing

This time I edited in my free period by myself. I got a lot done as I focused on the second verse of the music video. I started by putting the first part of the verse into an order that I thought would suit the pace and lyrics of the music, which is essential to allow the music video to flow. I then carried on using some more effects on Final Cut such as the mirror effect. I used this for the line 'off the fight with next doors school'. This proved effective as the mirror effect on a clip of some one's shadow kicking, made it appear as if the shadow was fighting itself. This proved effective as it related to the lyrics at that moment in the music video, and was fairly humorous. This humour fitted with our original idea to make the music video humorous at moments.

Editing

When we edited this time on our music video, our work had been moved back off the local server and onto our classes server. Unfortunately, this lost the work that I did after school. However, this benefited me because it allowed me to play around with the effects more. This time when I used the flash effect on the same clip for the natural transition, I played around with the settings and made it so that the clip starts really bright, but then as the blinds opened, the colour of the light becomes a light blue. The light also took the shape similar to snowflakes. This made the natural transition look unnatural but made the sequence of shots appear more effective than what I had previously done.

Editing

After school had ended I stayed behind and continued editing for another hour. In this time I decided to edit the first verse as I wanted to see that verse completed before the end of the week. The first part was already finished and it was only the end that needed work. Therefore, I used a few shots and just put them in an order that I believed to create an effective chronological sequence that suited both the lyrics and the tone of the music. The only effect that I used from Final Cut was the flash effect. This is because it could then create aid the natural transition that was creating from the opening of the blind to the next shot. This natural transition proved effective and allowed the music video the flow through the entire of the first verse smoothly.

Editing

In this lesson my group and I continued editing our music videos. This time we worked on the second repeat of the chorus. This is because the chorus requires more work as we never had a definite idea for the chorus. For this chorus we decided to use the moment with the shadows. By this I mean we changed the scale of four different clips so that one clip would take up a quarter of the screen and the portions were intended to be equal. However, this alone appeared to be a boring shot, so we added to it by removing one clip in the upper right quadrant and altered the opacity of one clip to get an overlay of two clips in the upper right quadrant. This effect proved effective and made the chorus a better shot as it had more things going on in the shot, it included more interesting mise-en-scene.

Edting

After our return from the half term break, the computer problem that we have all been having was still not resolved as the computers continued to drop frames during playback of our music video. However, the media technician created a new idea for the computers to work without dropping the frames. His idea was to move all the music videos and the clips onto the local server. Doing this would allow the computers to run smoothly until the initial problem can be fixed. With the problem out of the way. Editing the music video can now continue with the understanding that the editing process will be easier with the computers in working condition.

Editing

Waited 2 hours for project to be transferred onto a desktop away from the server to allow for easy editing and to avoid constant problems appearing whilst editing our music videos.

Filming the instruments being played

My group and I stayed after school to film some shots of the band playing the instruments. This is because it is a common feature of music video to show the artists at work, and therefore is a vital component that needs to be included in our music video. some o the shots we did were close ups of the buttons pressed on the saxophone and of the chords being played on the guitar as ell as the guitar being strummed.

These were effective shots because close ups are often used in a music video because they are composed excellently as they remove unnecessary background from the shot. Therefore these shots would be great examples of how we have composed our shots efficiently for the music video.

We also filmed some long shots so that we could have Stacy playing both the guitar and saxophone at the same time. THis would be more difficult to edit using Final Cut as we would have to crop some of the shot, but it would make the music video have an edge of abnormality, that we have already created throughout the music video.

Uploading re-shoot in the recording studio

In this lesson we spent the whole time uploading the footage of our re-shoot into our music video. This is because we needed the footage soon so that we could continue editing our music video so that the work we had done was more substantial and so that we could begin experimenting with effects in our music video.

Re-shoot in the recording studio

We completed a re-shoot in the recording studio because the work we had prior to this in the recording studio had unsuitable shots as w could not see the lead singers face for the most part. This is not good for a music video because a music video is supposed to promote the music of he band as well as the band itself.If we can not see who their artists are then the audience for the music video have not been reached and the music video has not met its criteria to publicize the band.

We also felt that the singer could be animated more because the shots, despite more effective angles (high an low) and shot distances (close and long), were lacking excitement and flair. Therefore, whilst we filmed we had the lead singer dance more effectively as well as appearing as though she is enjoying singing the song. This was effective as it made these shot sin the music video appear more realist as t made the artist appear passionate about the music.