Editing ~ First Edit

Unfortunately I and Jordan didn’t have the time we had planned to fulfil all the wishes we wanted to within the editing process as we hadn’t managed our time very efficiently. First of all when we came onto our editing process it was the day after we filmed our first location with the band, we straight away uploaded all the footage onto the computer and got rid of the videos which was not needed and began to rename the shots we decided to use as we found that this would help later on within the editing software as we knew what video was of what. After uploading the videos onto the editing software we firstly decided that we would start to put together the opening which is where Jordan is in the car and when he gradually walks to the shed. We spent a lot of our time doing this but thankfully we thought it paid off as we are very pleased with the outcome. As a group we decided to do an introduction like we have because we find it helps to create an atmosphere that it is simply a band practice which involves a group of close friends.

The instrumental of the song first comes in as Jordan opens the shed door as we found helped to build and create positive feeling and tension. At this point we had recently gone away and filmed our second narrative at our second location which involved Jess acting as Arabella. We then realised how close our deadline was and how much we had to edit in the short time we had which caused us both to get a little worried. From that we began to rush the editing process and not spend as much care with the little details which we had planned as we decided as a group we simply wanted to meet the deadline and we could re film what we needed after the deadline as we realised we have half term coming up. As shown above we did meet the deadline for our first draft which brought our spirit up as we felt more confident that had identified what we wanted to change and improve. 

Within our editing process we involve a lot of dynamic effects one of which is fading, we found this works really well within our video because we was very careful whilst editing our shots together and we have realised that it helps to prove our music with a smooth and relaxed feel to it instead of straight cutting every single shot. Although we found that the introduction looks much more professional that we have straight cut every shot because it looks more fast paced and gives of the feeling that the actor is wanting to get to somewhere important quickly.