The editing process for this music video isn't as straight forward as shoving the clips together and having a final product. To begin with, you have to create a rough cut of the music video, which will allow us to see the shape of the music video and see where we want to go with it. After you are happy with the rough cut you can go ahead and start on after effects and make it look really slick.
We began by looking through each individual shot, deciding whether we wanted to keep it or not use it. This was dependent on whether it was in focus, the lip sync was good or if the action was correct. After this we split the shots into scenes and labelled them "Scene 1 - graduation" and so on. There was also a bin full of random shots that we could dip into if we were bored of the shots we had set aside.
We then had to begin the syncing process and getting all the lip syncs in order. This was a lengthy process and required a lot of patience. The slightest move and the whole thing would be out of sync. Once we did this we began cutting the performance aspect of our video. We used this as the foundation of the video.
Once this cut was completed, we started adding bits of the narrative over the top, cutting away when we wanted performance to shine through. It was here that we realised that we possibly didn't have enough narrative to fill out the whole video (seeing as we had cut a scene on the shoot day.)
We thought we had finished, until we came up to the editing suite to find that something had happened at all the performance was out of sync. Absolute nightmare! This meant we had to re-sync loads of the clips, again a very lengthy process.
To make up for some narrative time I decided to try out a little flashback sequence, which merged together little clips from each scene. As a trial it looks really good.
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