Friday, 16 October 2015

Main Task - Post Production - Second Cut



Having re-watched our music video many times since finishing the first cut, we realised that some of the shots we had used were quite weak in comparison to some which we were yet to even use at all. Due to the fact we had such a large amount of footage, we were about to go through our video and remove all of the flat and weak shots, and replace them with something much better.
A problem we knew that was existing in our first cut was that we didn't have enough cuts. In order to improve this. we decided to listen to the track again (without any of the visuals), and create a graph communicating the pace of the song visually for us.



By creating this graph, it made it clear to us which points in the song were fast paced, and therefore would require a lot more cuts. It was quite easy to add more cuts in the music video, as we realised we had a lot of shots that were far too long, so this graph helped up choose where to make the shots shorter.
However one problem we were yet to fix following the editing of the second cut was what to put in the slower paced section of the song. We asked our peers for feedback, and they said that it was becoming slightly repetitive having just a performance, so maybe we should think about also including a narrative to accompany it. Myself and my partner discussed this, and we realised that we had known it all along, but we had just had our finger's crossed that it would all work out.
Although we were going to have to do another shoot to film the narrative, it wasn't too bad, because we had storyboarded a narrative as an initial idea, so we were able to use that as a starting point.



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