PRODUCTION: Editing 1

The Monday back from half term at 9am sharp, me, Nick and Poppy returned the camera equipment back to college as asked. Not having lessons till 3:15 we three gathered around a Mac and uploaded our shots to our groups hard drive. We then imported it into Final Cut Pro, the editing program we are using and began sorting through the many clips we had recorded in such a short amount of time. After categorising our clips so it would be easy to find certain shots, Poppy placed all the base tracks we had onto the timeline and began marking points on every single base track so they can be synchronised together. We had learnt how to do this near the end of our AS year through tutorials shown in class. This involved marking certain aspects of each base track (e.g. a specific word at a specific time) on every base track so they can be matched up together and easily edited. Instead of just putting markers only on the lyrics or specific words of the song, we had also put markers on the beat of music as we felt this would make it easier for us to edit.

As I had gone home to focus on other work commitments due in that day, both Nick and Poppy began to look at the footage and develop ideas in how to edit it. During planning, it had been discussed that we would like a jump cut of Poppy appearing at various distances and jumping from tree to tree. Poppy and Nick decided to test the idea of this jump cut to see how it would look. The shot was recorded as one whole clip on a tripod to keep the position of the camera consistent as the jump cut shows her appear from one tree to another. This allowed us during editing to delete the sections of her behind certain trees and select clips we did want, merging them together making it look like one continuous shot. This was just a rough draft of the idea to see how it works on screen, and thankfully, it worked well enough for us to be more intricate with our editing.

After mashing a few shots together that we though would go well together, we began to get an image of what our music video may actually look like, as seen in the video below.