Editing the first set of filming

We set about capturing all that we’d filmed the previous day, and to our dismay the black bars weren’t just a fault with the camera, they showed up on the exported version too. This meant that it was the tape that was the problem, so we made sure to throw it away and set our camera up with a new tape.

Whilst the footage with the bars was obviously unusable, we were lucky in the way that it was note present the whole way through, and so we were able to forage a lot of film from the faulty tape. We edited out a majority of the black lines, and stuck the unaffected shots together to be used later on. We roughly edited chunks together that matched the animatic to the parts of the song required, although we were aware that their position was likely to change as editing went on.

None-the-less we each took it in turns to clip, cut, and crop the film together, so we were refreshed on how to use adobe premiere pro. We also experimented with clips we did not need by adding effects and such. This was handy, as we now have a good stock of techniques we can apply to the video and music that none of us knew about before. Particularly the increase and decrease speed functions.

We had to make a decision whether to re-shoot the scenes with the static or not. We decided that we should, but rather than film in the same location, we would just take parts from different areas of future filming, and stitch them in place. We agreed that if we wanted to stick to the schedule we has made that this was the best thing to do.