2. FILMING
Technical – I filmed about 5 lip syncs in the studio for my music video. I
told my actors to learn the lyrics before so they could easily sing them.
To make sure that I would be able sync up the lip sync with the track
during editing, I played the track whilst my actors sang the song. I filmed
all of my footage on a DSLR Canon 600D and I used a Tripod too. The
tripod was useful for keeping the camera steady and to stop the video
from shaking. When filming for the first time at my grandmas, my
memory card became full and I was unable to film anymore footage. This
meant that I had to film again, on another day, in order to get all the
footage I needed.
3. FILMING
Logistical – For filming I used two locations, one was York College
Studio and the second was my Grandma’s House. I was initially going to
try and film at a dance studio but the timings didn’t work out too well.
I had very minimal problems with filming in the York College Studio and
only had to film twice in there. I got mostly what I needed from the first
session, however some parts needed refilming. In the second session I
refilmed some parts of the lip sync because the people lip syncing didn’t
know some of the lyrics. Overall, each filming session worked out well
and I got all the footage I needed.
At the second location I filmed some of the footage a few times and had
a few issues. One of the main issues was that the memory card keep
getting full and I had to transfer all the footage to a computer before
continuing filming. This just caused me to lose time that I could’ve used
to film and it was a great inconvenience. Another problem I had was
lighting. As the day progressed some of the footage was filmed in
low/bad lighting. This meant that most of the footage needed to
brightened in post production.
4. FILMING
Personnel – I didn’t really come across any issues with my cast and
crew. All of them turned up on time and were able to help when I needed
them to. The only issue I came across was two of my lip syncs not
knowing the lyrics. To overcome this I had to have a video playing the
song and the lyrics so they were able to sing them.
I had, in the studio, one other crew member who helped me film some
parts. In the other location I also had a crew member who operated the
camera well and efficiently. However, in terms of cast I had quite a few
cast members which needed to be organised – but I did this efficiently.
These cast members were mostly people who I needed to film lip
syncing.
5. FILMING
Planning – My planning made it a lot easier to film and list what I
needed in order to create a music video. The document which helped me
the most was the shot list because it allowed me to film in order and I
knew exactly what I needed to film. I followed this document and it really
allowed me to keep track of what I had, and hadn’t filmed. Some parts of
my planning could have worked better like my song breakdown. I could
have made a separate storyboard for each part of the song, this would
have aided me in filming. I could also have added, to the song
breakdown, more descriptions on what content to have in each part of
the song.
6. FILMING
Next steps – Most of the footage which I filmed on the first Sunday
wasn’t right for my music video which means that I have to re-film most
of that footage on Wednesday. This footage will be refilmed at my
grandmas house in the afternoon. I did change the beginning of my
video, instead of having the camera pan up and introduce the lip syncs, I
changed the video to show ‘what the girl had been up to’. I did this
because I felt that it portrayed the lyrics better and contrasted with the
song better.
7. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
Within my Film & TV folder on
my computer, I have a folder
named production which is
where is save all of my footage,
my soundtrack and all of the
edits for my music video.
Within my footage folder, I have all of my raw
footage saved into individual folders depending
on what day they were filmed on. This allows
me to separate all of the footage. In my edits
folder I have an exported version of my music
video, so far, so I can watch it easily and I also
have the Adobe Premiere file of the music
video. There is also my edit decision list within
this folder.
8. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
First, I opened up a new project
and left all the settings the
same. However, I named the
film ‘Snap Out Of It – Music
Video’ and chose to save it in
the Production/Edits folder.
Next, I came to a window and set up
the file as a Digital SLR (because
this is what the footage was filmed
on). Then I set the video to DSLR
1080p25 – which means the video
will be 1080p and at 25 frames per
second. I left the sequence name as
Sequence 1.
Adobe Premiere was now set
up and was almost ready to
allow me edit my video.
9. EDITING –
IMPORTING FOOTAGE
I first imported my audio track into
Premiere by dragging it from my
production folder into the footage
section on Premiere. I then
dragged the audio track onto the
timeline and started it at 00:00.
However, I cut off the first second
or two because it was silent – this
would make it easier to sync up the
lip sync later.
Next I had to import all of my
footage. To do this, I selected all of
the videos I wanted to use. Then I
dragged them into the Premiere
footage box and it imported all of
the footage that I had selected. To
make editing easier and more
efficient, I created different bins for
different filming days (and a bin for
all of the lip sync footage). This
would allow me to find the footage
easier.
10. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
*I mainly used the razor tool when I was cutting up pieces of
footage to edit into the music video. This allowed the video to flow
better and flick to the next clip when needed.
11. EDITING –
ASSEMBLY EDIT
This is my basic assembly edit where I
have put in all my footage, in order. On
the bottom video line (Video 1), I have
placed my full lip sync because this is the
basis for my video. I have cut it up and
removed the parts I don’t need.
To synchronise my lip sync I took the
footage and cut out the beginning and the
end. I did this until there was only the
footage of Sjon singing. Then I dragged
the footage and the sound onto the
timeline and moved it around until it
matched up with the track perfectly. In the
screenshot on the far left, you can see
that I have selected the part of the song I
want. On the inner left screenshot you can
see that I have synced up the footage with
the soundtrack.
12. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
To improve my final sequence I have essentially just colour
corrected most of the shots. This was because a lot of the lip
sync and some of the inside scenes were quite dark, so they
needed refining and brightening to improve the overall
aesthetic of the video. Another thing I have spent refining is
the timings of certain parts of the song. I spent awhile going
through the video and making sure that certain shots were
on the specific beat I wanted it to be on. Finally, I added in
some transitions to my video because it improved how the
shots transitioned in the slower parts of the song.
13. EDITING –
COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX
LIGHTING EFFECTS – All of my lip syncs
were filmed in the studio with the studio
lighting. However, when I came to watch
them back, they were very dark and need
brightening up. So I used the ‘Lighting
Effects’ to brighten it up. I changed lighting
effects to directional as oppose to the other
three because this gave the effect I
wanted. Below is a comparison before and
after I used Lighting Effects. I used this
effect on a few other pieces of footage to
brighten them up.
14. EDITING –
COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX
COLOURS – For the part of my video where
‘Snap Out Of It’ is said higher pitched, I used
a split screen effect to give the impression
that multiple people were saying it at the
same time. To make this more interesting I
changed the colour of the two male lip syncs
because the female lip sync were both the
same. To do this I used the ‘Fast Colour
Corrector’ tool and set the colour to purple. I
carried out the same process for the other
male lip sync but made it green instead.
15. EDITING –
EXPORT
EXPORT – First, I selected the timeline in Premiere because I
wanted to export ‘Sequence 1’ and nothing else. Next I went to
‘File’ and selected ‘Export’ then ‘Media’.
EXPORT SETTINGS – Next an ‘Export Settings’ window was
brought up which allowed me to change my export settings for my
video, the part of the video I wanted to export, the file name and
what file format I wanted to export it is. I selected the full video to
be exported, obviously and I was to export both audio and video. I
changed the ‘Format’ to H.264. Exporting in this file format will
make my video suitable to be uploaded to YouTube and it will save
as an MP4. As for the other settings, I didn’t really change them
because they were all fine.
FILE NAME – The only other thing that I did change was the
name of my file. At first it was called ‘Sequence 1’ which wasn’t
really a suitable name. So I changed the name to the original file
name which was ‘Snap Out Of It – Music Video’. I then chose to
save it into my Production/Edits folder because this is where I am
storing the versions of my music video etc.
