Editing- Rough Cut

Today on my rough cut I added in the mp3 track of Hurts Illuminated to add the edited footage as I felt that I was happy with what I have created so far.

Although it took a long time to render, I am trying to find a solution for this but unfortunately I have to wait along time even if I separate the rendering tasks

But I now have learnt a lesson that I really need to add the audio first as this is the main guideline when editing as without it you are lost at not knowing were it starts, finished and instrumental or change in temp and its quite hard to judge even if you know the song well.

Even considering this I have been quite luck as fortunately my footage matches up with the audio. I have aimed for the lip syncing to be perfect and I’m very pleased with the out come but I know it could be improve by making sure that my actor can really emphasise his lip movement as he did tend to not move his lips as well as he good do. But this is a problem that can easily be corrected when it comes to re-filming next week.

I have tried to highlight areas in the song where there is a change of tempo or a highlight on a specific instrument. I have noted these seconds down and have aimed to highlight them with an area of movement or focus.

I want to do this because it shows the audience that the dancers are part of the music and are involved. I don’t want it to look like they are dancing and the music is just overplaying.

By looking at the song in more depth has made it easier to come up with ideas for example at 0.12 seconds there is a single high not played on the piano. I could have not emphasised on it but I thought it was quite a dramatic note to play, when one of the dancers looks at another in the frozen pose. This has been seen before in the Hurts music video wonderful life. The dancers strike very ridged poses with sharp movement and expressionless faces.

I am going to try to make the most of the music. I want the music video to be designed to the song. No just an accompaniment I was the movement and shots to compliment the music. To make the audience feel more connected with the sounds.