Final Editing

We have now finished editing our video. Our main problem was syncing the music in time with the visuals but we found ways around this and now everything is in time and still in the order. The solution we found to overcome this problem was swapping around some of our footage and place them in other places where we feel they sync with the music a lot better than in their original position, we did all this using the iMovie HD programme which we have been editing our video with. This is, however, something we could definately improve on in future. We added a few more effects to certain clips such as adding the N-square effect to a number of clips and also the flash effect in order to keep the fun factor and a slightly cheesy feel to the video so that the audience are kept amused.

Editing our Video.

We have recently began to edit our footage from our 2 filming sessions. To edit and produce our video we used the prgram iMovie HD. We have tried to include as many ideas from our storyboard as possible and I think this has helped us through the editing process smoothly and effectively.I think that the style of editing we have used has given our music video a slightly 'cheesy' feel because of our use of effects within the video. This has given our video a bit of a comic factor which i feel will help to attract the audience. We have used quite a lot of slow motion in places to emphasise what is happening in the shot and to keep a consistent surreal feel to the video. We have also experimented with the N-Square effect to give the video a retro and parody style feel.The main area we need to focus on is our timing with what's happening on screen and the audio that's playing. There are a number of times when the music is not in sync with what is happening on the screen but we are working to correct this ane ensure the music matches the visuals.

Trip to the CLC.

Over the past few weeks we have managed to finish filming our music video and recently we have began to edit our video using imovie hd.

We have also recently visited the state-of-the-art CLC (City Learning Centre) at Brislington to use the ICT facilities they had available to help produce our cd cover and sleeve. The four of us worked as a group effectively to help produce the cover and sleeve in the given time frame. We had already taken quite a lot of photos of what we wanted to use in our cover photos and middle pullouts so we just had to decide which five photographs to use. We voted as a group on which photographs to use and once we had decided then we started work on editing them to make them look how we wanted. As a group we then came up with the idea of our picture having all the colour taken out of it apart from the red which we felt that when left on its own in a black and white background was a very striking effect. We felt that this would catch peoples eye as it is intersting and different which is what our target audience wanted according to our questionnairre results.We stuck to our original plans to produce our end product which we were very pleased with.