Music video beginning to come together! - Editing

Assembling the Video through Editing

In our group we all have preferences and strengths and weaknesses. Connor undoubtedly is the best person in the group at editing. In today's lesson we got the chance to sit down and actually start to put our music video together (I know!!! Exciting times right!) We used this lesson to upload everything we have filmed on the program Final Cut Express which is the same program that we used last year in year 12 to edit our short Thriller videos. Uploading everything onto the program took quite a while as you can imagine due to how much we have filmed over the last couple of weeks. It took roughly 45 minutes to obtain all the footage. We started to edit our first scene, which was the playground scene and we had to cut and crop out parts that we felt didn't look good in the video, this didn't take long as we all had the same idea in mind. Our first editing session was very successful in my opinion as it set the foundation for us and the rest of the filming that we need to do.

3rd Day, Unable to Film

3rd Day of Filming

(Disastrous weather!!)

The plan today was to once again go out to various locations and get some valuable footage. However, due to the terrible weather conditions, we had to cancel our plans last minute to the annoyance of many of our group members as it is very hard for all of us to schedule a day to go filming due to our various commitments such as sport and work. The decision to call off today's filming session was a collective decision with the interests of our work as the priority. We thought about how strong the winds where and it was quite evident that the strength of the wind was more than capable to blow the camera and tripod away which would be a disaster if the camera broke as it is an expensive piece of equipment, not to mention our tape could also be destroyed in the accident leaving us without coursework. We where also actually supposed to film last Sunday but again due to the rain, it was called off. The weather conditions has put us slightly behind where we want to be but nevertheless we are more than capable of catching up.

2nd Day of Filming

2nd Day of Filming

On our second day of filming, things didn't go as according to planned. This day of filming was primarily to get footage of Central London, which is the main destination of where we are filming. The plan was to go to various locations such as Trafalgar Square and The Shard and get background bits of filming done. Unfortunately due to members of our group having commitments such as their weekly shift on a Saturday afternoon at work, we didn't have all of our group members. This consequently meant that we couldn't really film ourselves because we didn't have everyone doing the performance and if we did film without everyone, then the continuity of the music video will be questioned. Going further, due to the poor weather conditions which included heavy rain and extreme winds throughout the majority of the day, this day was more or less a chance for us to see where we would be filming and discuss what we think should happen and how it should happen when filming at these locations. When we arrived at Piccadilly Circus, it was very busy as expected. We did however manage to get a little bit of filming done their and we proceeded to the next location Trafalgar Square. As we arrived at Trafalgar Square, the ambition was to get some footage of iconic landmarks such as the waterfall, however upon arrival we noticed that the waterfall and other parts were barricaded which denied us access to film, we concluded that there was no point of standing there, freezing cold and we made our way to the next location of "Speedy's Cafe" with the thought to return another day to the waterfall to get some footage.