I've started to add in cut away shots today along with transitions, and I've also changed the transparency on some of the clips for a better effect. 

TIRED OF RENDERINGGGGGG D;

Yes I know, why am I still filming when the deadline is in a few days? But after watching my progress so far, I'm still not satisfied with some of the shots! So me and Chenny popped out quickly to re-shoot the scenes for the bridge section. We also got some extra cutaway shots and some moving shots of Chenny singing while we were at it!

In today's editing session, I changed around the structure of my Music Video, as in the rough cut there wasn't a structure at all. Although I am planning to re-shoot some of it as some of the shots are too dark. Since I have quite a variety of base tracks, I have enough to create a proper structure. What I mean by this is that; in the first verse Chenny bay be wearing a specific outfit, then in the second verse there will be a change of locations and possibly outfits too, the choruses will be the same(ish) and the bridge will also differ.

So in todays lesson, I imported all the new footages I filmed last night, and lined them up to the track so everything is in synch. I am also going to sort out the clips and create a structure!

Here are some screenshots from the new footages from today, as you an see the ones filmed with Canary Wharf in the background, Chenny is a lot clearer and the clip itself is a lot brighter.

We went out filming tonight as I was told I lacked in variety of shots especially close-ups. I also decoded  re-shoot the scenes with Canary Wharf in the back, as the current footages on Final Cut are too dark and appear to be quite grainy.

I have finished the rough cut of the music video, and so far this is what the the sequence looks like.

As I recorded using my own camera on last Friday, and have more than enough footage, I'm going to start a new project instead of using the footage filmed on the school video camera. I was told Final Cut doesn't like it when you mix footages from different technologies.

After laying on and matching up the base tracks and making sure everything is in synch, I had to mark the entire sequence again, to every four beats I lay down a marker.  Then I each base track up to the using the markers as a guideline   

Since I have quite a number of base tracks I've decided to split the tracks up, to some i will only use for the verses, and the other for the chorus only.

I then began to delete the tracks, hopefully I will have the rough cut up by tomorrow!

Chenny wore different outfits this time, luckily it wasn't as cold as the first day we filmed therefore we could use more of a variety of outfits. The lighting was a lot better this time round as well so the mes stood out a lot more.

When we was filming the very first time, I totally forgot about ChennyB's make up. Since I was re-shooting everything, I made sure to apply some make up on Chenny, not a lot though. As ChennyB is a young artist, and we want to bring out a fresh image, that teenagers and young adults can look up to. So I didn't want to cake Chenny up with make up. I just concealed away any flaws on her face so it won't appear on screen and applied some eye make up to bring out her eyes a little. 

In todays lesson I continued with where I left off last lesson, I have finished the rough cut and will be uploading the video soon.

 

After lining up the videos to the track itself so the lip synching is matched up, I started putting markers on the sequence, marking it to every four beats, I then used the razor tool to split the clips at where the markers are. This is only a rough cut!