ROUGH CUT Vs. ANIMATIC

Today we finished editing the rough cut. At first we thought we had too much footage for the 2 minute 41 seconds song, but after cutting out unnecessary footage and speeding up certain sections of the video in order to be in tune with the beat of the music, the duration was edited down to 1 minute 57 seconds. This has raised a new concern for us to film more footage to last a further 44 seconds. We still have more scenes waiting to be filmed on our storyboard, we are hoping they will elaborate into longer scenes when filming.

Animatic:

Rough Cut:

In comparison we have made some changes to the original animatic, for example some scenes had lasted longer than expected which didn't fit to the beat of the music as exact as our animatic. This is an issue that we are going to improve after we have finished filming the rest of the scenes.

Concerns..

Today we continued editing. During this process, we realised that the lighting was too dark and in some shots you are not able to see the characters face. We are still trying to decide whether we should re-shoot the shots or just try and correct it on Final Cut Pro.

Next lesson we will be editing again.

These scenes are only seconds apart, the lighting in the second scene is much darker and more grey than the first scene, This is affecting the continuity of the video. We were too focused on camera angles and movement so ignored the importance of lighting when we were filming, this would definitely be an area to improve if we decide to film this footage again.

Technical Difficulties!

Today, we uploaded the footage we created on Friday to the computer. It took a long time because of the HD quality, and the fact the the computer was VERY slow. VERY. We struggled to edit anything as the computer would freeze every couple of minutes. Therefore we only cut about 5 shots in total. On Thursday we will be editing the rest and will hopefully get it done in that lesson.

Filming...take two

On the 3rd of December we started filming in Burnham. We only had a couple of hours available so we started straight away. We started at around 2.00pm and filmed non stop until around 5.00pm. We managed to get around half of the footage we needed so we will definitely need to go out and film again. During the filming session, we decided to film all of the outside scenes in a different location to where we originally planned. This is because we could not find a suitable place and could think of a better one. Also, the temperature was around -5 and we didn't want to freeze. As we have two members of the group away today we will decide when to resume filming on thursday.

Filming...take one

Yesterday, we arranged to film most of the music video. However, due to 'unfortunate' circumstances, we had to cancel at the last minute. Hopefully we are going to film on Friday the 3rd of December. This means that we can start editing next Tuesday.

Storyboard

Last week we completed our storyboard. It consisted of around 50 frames. This gave us a good indication of how long our footage lasted and if we needed to add on any extra scenes. It took us around 2 lessons to complete (with the help of our shot list).