Production Log: Week 6

What have you contributed to this week?

Final Cut Express.

We are currently on track with our production schedule and are pleased to know that we are moving at a good pace due to our tight time frame. Prinul and I were excited to begin the editing stage and watch the production fall into place, it felt rewarding as we could see our hard efforts on the screen. We both shared job roles and gave in our own input towards what we liked in the editing stage. We had experimented with a lot of tools in this programme such as the Cross-Dissolve and Fades. By watching music videos we knew that the effects make or break the video so we wanted to use as many as possibly effectively without over working the music video. 

This week we had imported all our footage onto the software; Final Cut Express. This simple task took a fair bit of time as we had quite a lot of footage to sort through. By sorting through the footage we had picked out the shots, matching them with our shooting script, and had imported it into the scratch disk. We had watched a few YouTube tutorials to help us get an idea of the tools that were on offer in Final Cut Express. We then began to edit our Music video.  

How does this fit with the production schedule/job roles/overall ideas for the project?

Were there any problems?

There was a problem of lighting in some of our footage, the camera movement and angling was perfect but the visuals of the image was far too dark which disabled us from seeing vital facial expressions. We decided that it was a must that we re shot this particular footage. There was also some footage we wanted to re shoot in the school studio as we felt with such a passionate song we wanted Jasmine to lip sync much better to make it more believable to the audience. 

How did you/will you overcome them?

To solve this problem we had to re shoot which a problem as we were on schedule and were able to fit in a time to do the footage. We are glad we did as it looks much better than it did before. We ensured that the lighting was much brighter naturally which enabled the camera to pick up on facial expressions 

What are the plans for the following week?

The following week will consist of re shooting the darker shots and school studio shots. We will also be continuing on with the editing towards our final Music Video.