PRODUCTION- Editing Blog 1

I have spent time gathering together the footage that my group has got and started to put it together. I have additionally tried to test out some of the effects that Adobe Premier Pro allows me to use. I spent some time over the Christmas holiday testing this out.

When looking through the clips I had been given, I realised that the camera wasn't completely stable. Therefore i had to select through my footage to find the best quality work. I then placed them into to the software and began to edit them together. I furthermore noticed that I did not have all the shots that I needed in the right locations. For example at the beginning of the music video the male artist was suppose to be walking down the streets of Digbeth, however due to circumstances the film crew were not able to work of site that day. Therefore they filmed him walking down a corridor in our college. I took this and placed it in the music video for our first draft, however I do not believe that i am going to keep this for our final product as it looks unprofessional. Along with this i was also given in studio dance footage. When making the draft product I used the whole of it. However, my intention as editor is to cross-cutting of this dance in different locations and this will be shown in our final music video.

As I was going along I decided to try and test out what i could use in Adobe Premier Pro and this is some videos of me editing.

In this video, you can that when i got back a second lot of footage. For some reason it did not fit to a frame.It was almost as if it was filmed and had a square frame instead of being rectangular. This caused a few issues as you can see. I had to (CmdT) select the video and resize it as you can see. However unfortunately it seems like it is making the image look more blurry. Lucky, our group have discussed that this is going to be re-shot and will be on the streets of Digbeth.

 

I also made the decison to merge these two layers together, therefore making it seem that the male artist was controlling the whole of the music video. So that it would make more sense to the consumers what the male is doing in the music video. I spent a lot of time changing and working on the opacity of the layers to get this effect as well as trying to possession them in the right places.