Editing - Full Edit (All Footage)

After filming our final footage of the performance part of the video, we had to edit everything into the correct sequence. We had to make sure the timing and clips were right and then it would be finished.

DAY 5
On the first day of our full editing we decide to do the first sequence of our music video. We knew we had 14 seconds of intro music until all the guitars started. The plan was to get them to walk onto their instruments while their music was playing and then when all the guitars kicked in they started playing as well. We neievley only took one shot of this so it was only at speed, and it didn't fit. So we decided to speed the footage up to the right time frame so that it fit. Ironically the sped up footage worked really well, better than the original.

DAY 6
The next day we did the main bulk of the editing getting all the clips we knew we wanted in the right positions. For example the main chorus with the loud singing we wanted a shot of the lead singer, and we wanted a shot of the drums and guitar where they were best suited. We managed to edit over half the song all into the right timing as well. This was the most difficult part as we had several clips that were from different angles and lasted the entire song. When we then cut these clips we had to find the right start point cut it than find the right end point and cut it. Once we then put it in we had to make sure that the lips were in sync and the guitar strums and drum beats were in time. This was really difficult as in a short period of time a lot happened in the footage. If the clip was then wrong in timing once we cut it we then had to find the original clips and cut clips of around 0.01-2 seconds to get to the right timing. We couldn't delete any of these clips in case we needed them later so we had hundreds of 0.01 size clips everywhere. This made it really difficult and we still couldn't get the timing exactly correct as it would have taken a really long time as it was near impossible maybe it was impossible. What didn't help was that we had a recording of the song and were placing the clips muted over the music and the timing of the singing was different (all be it milliseconds). However this meant that the singer could start singing in time and be out of time by the end of the line which is impossible to change.

DAY 7
On this day we edited the last of the footage into place. One specific part we wanted to get right was on shot of the guitars. The song played one guitar and then a second kicked in with a different tune over the top. We changed the sound levels when the second guitar started to raise the sound and emphasise the fact that there was another guitar. We wanted this bit to be perfect as we had emphasised it. We had to make sure that we had the right guitar over the right section and had to make sure every strum was in time which I have previously stated was really difficult.