These tutorials helped us to gain a much further understanding of the editing programme and therefore helped to us with the editing process and enabled us to use more advanced editing skills for our music video.
The main challenge we faced with the editing process, was cutting down the amount of filming we had to an amount that was the length of our chosen song, Beautiful People, which is 3 minutes 39 seconds long. We roughly had about 1 hour worth of footage which had to be cut to roughly 4 minutes.. this was a very hard and brutal process!
The first time we watched through all of our footage, we noted down the main sections that we definitely wanted to keep in our music video.
The second time we watched it we started to cut out anything that we did not feel was a main feature that we wanted to include in our music video, things such as filming of the Thames and a huge crowd of people, which we did not feel were that important to include in our video.
The third time we edited out sections of our filming that were not as good quality and as well shot as other parts of our filming, such as a shaky camera and bad lighting.
After these three times of editing, we were still faced with a huge amount of footage that we needed to narrow down to 3 minutes 39 seconds. We decided the best way to go about it was to watch through again, whilst looking at our general plot, and to put our filming in a rough order of how we wanted our music video to be. This helped us to establish what we currently had and how much of each different section of filming we had. For example, we had a huge amount of footage of the bike tricks and therefore we noted down that we need to chose only 4 of the best tricks we had filmed for our final music video. We had this process for a few more editing days which really helped us to brutally cut down our filming to more less fit with the length of our chosen song.
With the main editing process of cutting down our footage, we then started to put our video in the correct order that we had written down. After doing this and watching it through again, it was easy to see that the plot order we had first written down, was not flowing as well as we hoped it would. This brought us to the next stage of our editing programme, to order the film that flowed in the best way possible, which was a very long and difficult process but was well worth it! We were extremely happy with our progress and were very excited to fit it in with the music.
Once the song Beautiful People had been added to our editing programme, we then were faced with yet another challenge. Before adding the music we had our whole video in the perfect flowing order, but as soon as we added the song, we then had to make the action fit with the beat and words of the song, which we stupidly forgot to think about before ordering our footage. This was a long and fairly frustrating process as we had wasted a lot of time ordering our footage in the wrong order to fit with the song, but once we had finished editing our footage to fit perfectly in time with our song, we were extremely excited and happy as we had nearly finished! Once we had added the titles to our music video, we just had to publish it and we were done.
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