Journal 14th February 2011

Today we stayed behind after school and began editing our footage so far, it was more a case today of putting the sequence and the correct order. We pieced together the opening piece of the song, and planned what to do with certain pieces of footage and where to use them.

We realised that a piece of footage was missing so we will upload that tomorrow and we have decided to add in some split screens, now I feel the footage is slowly beginning to come together now. Next we just need to keep editing and I'm certain we will complete the whole project in time.

Journal 11th February 2011

Today, in some free periods we began loading up all the footage to Final Cut Pro. This process took a while as we have a lot of footage to work through but we began just cutting down the obvious bits we didn't need, ready and set up to begin piecing our music video together.

Below are some screen shots of our first attempts of editing the new idea.

Editing

Now we have began editing, the sequence is beginning to come together.
But after looking at the footage and listening to feedback from teachers a other pupils, the performance piece doesn't look as energetic as it should be. After trying to edit what we have, it also looks as if our shots are too long and there is not as many cuts as there should be to match the song. We felt it didn't work as the lighting didn't put across the bright/energetic scene that we were trying to create and felt that this didn't enable us to get across the reaction from the audience that we were planning as the colours and performance came across quite dull rather than someone having a fun time and enjoying themselves.
So now we have made the decision to do a complete re-shoot and to get the whole sequence shot and edited by february half term.