Editing the second set of filming - Part 1

The film from the previous set of filming was captured without a problem, and so the black bars were no longer a problem. We edited more film into that which we had previously edited, and made sure that the lip syncing was as accurate as we could make it. We found that as parts sometimes needed to be faded over each other, that it was necessary to utilise layers. Before now, we had just had maybe 1 or 2 layers, but we are now making use of about 4. This actually makes the process easier, as only film on the uppermost layer at any one time will be displayed, so we can still keep film ‘underneath’ these layer to be used at later points in time. We have about ¾ of the film we need all in all, and now we just need to film the Bike and Pillow scene.

One of the shots we wanted to use had a lot of black bars at the beginning, but we used this to our advantage. We set up a camera in front of a television, and tuned it so that only static was displayed. We captured the film and edited it to the start of the video. This combined with the black lines at the very start, gives the impression that a channel has just been changed, or a video been played from the beginning. This fixed the problem with a much needed shot’s black lines and also covered the instrumental at the beginning of the song. We agreed that this was now final.

One scene (that we had previously filmed the same morning outside of school) of Marianna and I walking through the trees together, cut short by about a second longer than it needed to be. This was fixed by increasing the speed duration of that shot by about 15% so that it lasted for the period of time needed. The difference in time was so small that it flowed well and looked natural. We went about then trying to cut each shot to quite a small size, and lining the mouth movements of the performers up with the lyrics of the song. We still needed to edit in a wider variety of shots that we had previously taken, but this was to be done another day.