Editing (4.12.14)

today was a very stressful editing session i must say. this is purely down to the fact that tomorrow his the deadline for our music video! eek! It has been a long time coming, however we are still yet to sign off the sheet with the big and bold letters 'FINISHED'! Today's session was useful in the sense that Louisa was able to give us some feedback and advice before we finalised and submitted our final music video. I believe the feedback we received was highly useful as it clarified particular theories that we would be using if we made those changes. For example, we decided to use cutaways in the chorus after the first verse and then go on to using them during the second verse. The response form Louisa was that we should instead use them in the chorus after the second verse as it will then act as a motif, giving the audience some sense of familiarity. At first I was against doing this as I wanted the cutaways to come as a surprise and not have the audience expert these changes. However, after applying these suggested changes it created a structure that was clear and flowed well. It also meant that we were now following Goodwin's theory of repetition. 

While watching our music video, Louisa noticed that there was a shot in which a member of the public was walking past while I was performing, which was a distraction from the main focus- the video. We swiftly changed the shot, which was easy since we partly used the method of laying a few base tracks down.

Lastly, as we started most of the verses with a medium shot giving the audience a clearer shot of the artist, it would be unusual to start with a long shot which we initially did, at the beginning of the last verse. Louisa said it would be better to begin with a close up in which I couldn't agree anymore. After looking at the applied changes it made a smoother transition from the previous verse. 

After the lesson had finished I was able to go into room 323 to being applying the changes that were yet to be done. Furthermore I began tidying up the last verse which proved very difficult as the majority of the base tracks were filmed in slow motion.