With all the footage gathered we can begin editing. Oliver did pretty much all of this as he is familiar with Imovie8 so let him do what he wanted in terms of putting it all toether along the way I threw in ideas and opinions. The start of our video easily took the longest to edit as we needed to to find single second clips that fitted perfectly into the songs beat. From the first session we had around 10 minutes worth of filming and we had to comb through it to find the set of 14 single second clips.The total editing time was around 1 hour 30 minutes just for 14 seconds worth of film we learnt from this that going the entire video in this format would be too time consuming and also it would run the risk of being repetative.
2nd editing session
This scene is of Myslef taking a shot of vodka and two pills in my kitchen . We have five different shots that need to be blended together we were glad when it came to the editing process that we made the choice to do different shots as it looked alot more effective when we played it through on Imovie. Unlike the first time we edited there wasn't any special effects we had to murge in so this was a short and sweet session as a big part of our video was done in a short time . This part of the video sets the story for the whole video (effects of pills) so it was important that everything in this editing session was pretty much perfect.
Third editing session
This was similar to the first in the sense that we got around 10 minutes footage and had to pick out around 20-25 seconds to put in the final video. The hard part is getting the way I'm strumming to fit with the notes of the music but as we had already done this in the first editing session I didn't take as long beacuse Oliver had the know how to do effect we wanted to achieve. We relised that from all the footage we gathered this scene was a great opportunity to really cram in as many different shots as possible close up's , mid shots, long shots , extreme long shots, low shots all made up this part of our video. Each of the 0.8 second clips used had to make up the 20 seconds so you can gather from this the amount of shots that were used.
Forth editing session
The second Verse is where the main side effects of the drug are shown. This part of the video starts of with a POV shot of Myself approaching our firend Matt and being pushed away this shot wasn't orginally in here but we added it in after feedback we got for our teacher who told us as shot such as this would boost marks and make the video better . After the POV shot it cuts to a second POV shot this turn in a sequence. This part of filming was only done 30 meters from where the push part of the video had happened. This part again is a POV shiot of myslef stumbling around during the the scene Oliver edited in bold colours such as RED,GREEN,BLUE and also slightly distorted it so the viewer could side the side effects of the "drugs" . Olive then cut a flashback for a previous scene where Iam pushing matt when he is trying to get into this car.This part finishes with me falling to the floor and looking at the sky is a done in POV shot but when i come to lip sinc we brought a tri pod in a focused it on me lying on the floor.
Fifth editing session
This session was putting the ending of our video toether and making it finsih on a climax. The ending is made up shots of Myslef Walking down the street. I tryed to vary the shots as well as movement to make the video more interesting we did this with skip motion and switching sides of the road . I started almost out of view of the camera then made my way to the camera by crossing the road playing in the middle and around lamposts. We kept the camera running constantly then cuts out the parts of me walking across so we gained the effect of me appearing on opposite sides of the road. After completing that part it came to the final scene we wanted to make this part exciting as it was the final part of our video it consists of a POV shot from oliver seeing myslef playing the guitar then I approach Oliver a smack him in the chest with my guitar. Oliver falls back onto the road with the camera still in his hand then the camera slowly moves to reveal a "drug dealer" leaning against a fence smoking. This "drug dealer" was a firend our ours we asked to help. We thoughout it would leave a sort of cliffhanger to the end of our video as after the camera is focused on our friend the shot fades into the darkeness.
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