Starting the rough cuts - 05/02/13

Today Jamie and I began the process of putting our rough cuts together for the music video, we decided not to add any effects or transitions until the majority of the shots were all roughly in the correct position on the timeline. This will allow us to focus more upon the use of effects as we'll know everything is all ready ordered correctly and in time, in addition we'll also know what is coming up next in the video.  

Editing - the synching process

Today Jamie and I finished syncing up all the performance shots, we have 16 performance tracks, eight from a handy cam and eight from the HD camera. We had to sync up each take individually with the audio track which means that if we want to use a particular shot from a certain take we just have to make sure that it is the highest track on the timeline. In addition to syncing up all the video tracks we also changed the aspect ratio, the default aspect ratio is 0 but we changed it to -42 as this adds more of a professional element to the video. As we have so many tracks to work with we decided that we should hide some of the tracks on the timeline and then show the ones that we know we are going to use shots from as this will decrease the render time of the video when changes are made to it. Having such a wide variety of tracks works in our favour, although they will probably be a handful to manage, as it means that we may have more interesting shots that we can use if we need to add an eye catching performance shot.

Another filming difficulty

We have had another difficulty filming at our original intended location, Valentines Mansion, as the building is currently under renovation and parts of it are unsafe to the general public. When we first heard about this we decided that we should just find another building of heritage and see if we would be able to film there, there is only one other building of heritage near us which is Eastbury Manor House so we got in contact with them and asked if we would be able to film there. However we were soon informed that the Manor House was also closed and the next available date that we would be able to use it for filming would be on Saturday the 9th of February, this posed us with a problem as there was no doubt that it was far too long a time to wait to film. Much earlier in the planning process we came up with an idea which we could use should filming at the mansion fall through, the basis of the idea was to turn an art classroom into somewhat of an art gallery and film in there. As we were unable to film at both of the mansions we decided that we should revert to our back plan, we will be filming it on Wednesday 23rd January.

What we have left to film

Today we discussed what else we needed to film before we are able to start editing all of our footage together. There are two pieces that we have left to film which involve filming at Valentines Mansion to complete the bass narrative which we plan to have occurring roughly half way through the music video. In addition we have to film one more section of elevator shots which will be used to help progress the narrative further in the video. We will have to arrange two more days to film in the near future to make sure that all our filming is completed as quickly as possible so we are then able to start editing earlier, which will give us more time to focus on the editing stage.
We also need to take some pictures that synergistically link with the rest of our media text to use within the digipak that we have to create.

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