Filming and Editing: Deadline week Wednesday

We decided to come into lunchtime media workshop to go over the last bits of our music video.

As we had trouble with this shot, we thought about deleting it. but since we added the smooth cam effect and slowed down the shot, it looks much better and useable.

During yesterday's session, we put a space between this shot and the one before; but today we decided against it and put them together and made it look more continues. 

Production- skill development (editing)

Filming and Editing: Skills development

Through out the whole editing process I can say that I have learnt new editing skills. Through the whole process of editing we had to start from scratch by filming our footage and then going on to edit it. I have learnt how to precisely make sure that the lip sync is in sync with the audio track and that it looks good. Furthermore,  I also learnt how to add more than just basic editing such as adding in slow motion, desaturate and also adding in a time lapse to our music video.
In the beginning of the editing we had to add in all the base tracks and then add in markers to every 4 beats this took precision as they all had to be in time with the previous one so that when we cut all of the lips is would be easier.

Filming and Editing- Deadline week Tuesday

Today, we decided to go to the media workshop to further improve our music video. We continued to solve the issues raised in our feedback.

We focussed mainly on adding effects on the past shots which will give our audience a visual clue. 

1st effect attempted, we didn't like it because it was to colourful and did not represent what we wanted.

Eventually, we decided to change the brightness and contrast of the shot and thus making it look slightly different to the other shots.

We also didn't like the jump cut in this shot so we decided to add a short clip in between the two.

Blogging health check 2 feedback and response.

We are in our final week of editing, I have received my second blogging health check.

"well done!  This is looking so much better Hadi. I’m really pleased at the effort that you’ve put in.  I love the sound could audience feedback, the research into techniques on youtube for making someone disappear, and the level of honesty in your reflection on the quality of your film.  You are using ICT really well - a lovely variety of different methods of presentation are being used which makes your blog look really interesting to read.  As you move into the individual parts of the production you should keep to the current frequency of blogging.  To improve further:  you could think about bringing in gif files if you need to post photos; remember to include something ‘visual’ in each post, even if it’s just a screen shot or photo; keep going with the research - not many people do this but it shows that you are constantly thinking about how to improve your work, which the moderator will love. Remember that the next two products that you have to make (digipak and advertisement) are worth half the music video, so you’ll need to put in lots of effort."

I am pleased to see that my hard work is paying off. to improve further, I will take on board the suggestions given to me and continue to blog consistently.

Filming and Editing: Notes and ideas for Evaluation Question 3

I have used an app called 'ABC notes' on my iPhone to write down my notes and ideas for evaluation question 3. Below I have included a picture of a screen shot of the note as I was unable to embed or put a link to it.

Filming and Editing- deadline week Monday

Today, i decided to go in early in order to begin to fix some of the issues raised by our target audience. One issue was that the guitar playing didn't start in time with the song. i managed to fix this.

This is the shot where the guitar playing started out of sync

I decided to cut the clip and go back to the original footage and add a shot where the guitar playing starts at the right time.  As you can see on the top left of edited shots, there is a seperate shot there.