Editing The Montage Section

 Today we decided to edit our montage section of our music video, this is the last section of the video. We wanted it to look more upbeat than the rest of the music video as it was supposed to represent the girls happy memories of her and her boyfriend. We needed to also make it obvious to the audience that the girl was entering a dreamlike state. So by using final cut express we could make the contrast and brightness at least white so that it was noticable the setting was changing. This is when the brightness was changed;

To also show the memories the quality of the video was not as good as the rest of the filming, however this made it look as though they were home videos or it was another persons point of view of the two people.

We used vignetting to get the corners of the frame to go darker to make the two characters seem more centre of the frame. This is how we done it;







And this is what it created;
- You can notice the dark shades at the top corners of the image.










Furthermore we made the memory shots all the same length so they fitting with the song better.












We also edited the colour and the contrast of these clips so they looked brighter and gave a more happier feel to the music video

The Graveyard Section

Editing the Graveyard section was different to editing the rest of our footage, we wanted it to stand out anyway, however at first we was thinking of changing the contrast so that it was black and white, however after trying this we realised that it may make the footage look amateurish and tacky so instead we decided to edit it in chronological order. This was different as the rest of our video had no order to it.
The girl walked into shot, into the graveyard, up to the grave and placed the flowers down, we thought that if this section wasn't in order it wouldn't make sense.

Continuing Editing

Today we continued to edit our footage, we were hoping to get up to 1 minute 30seconds of footage. We have worked hard to edit a lot of footage, we have made sure we lock in the layers when editing to avoid the song and the video clips from moving accidentally.

We have got a lot of clips within the first section of our music video, this shows fast editing, and it makes the video look more interesting. The layers on the image below show how we have used them well to enable editing to fit in time with the song and use them when we need to.

We also used a graphic match to make the editing look more professional, it shows our abilities of editing and also makes the video more interesting. Below are the two images which show the transition between the graphic match.

Below is the editing we used for the graphic match;

Todays plan

We are planning to add lip syncing up to 3 minutes 14 seconds, this is because we want to show our ability of editing the lip syncing footage. After we have reached 3 minutes 14, we are going to start editing our montage section, we have thought o a smooth way for the transaction where the brightness and contrast is increased a lot so that it looks like the girl is entering a dream-like state.

Editing the Graveyard section

Today in class and after school we added to graveyard footage to our music video, at first we weren't too sure that this footage would flow nicely with the rest of our footage, however by editing some singing between the clips and watching it over, figuring out what we could do for it to flow better we decided that it fit rather well. After adding this our music video was about 2 and a half minutes long. Below are some screen shots.
The below image is where we split up some of the graveyard scene, so the music video didn't become too boring

The image below is a close up of the girls feet walking towards the cemetery, we wanted to use a range of different camera angles, so it didn't just all look the same

The image below is the girl standing at the grave with the boy next to her, although he is supposed to be dead, we filmed this as it's as if its the boys ghost, and he is going to fade out of the shot.

The above image is of some of the footage which we filmed, we will chose what of this we will put in the music video

Editing, Adjusting of Speed

In our music video we tried to improve the quality of our music video by adjusting the speed, we used a lot of slow motion clips to make the video look more surreal. The slow motion clips helped the emphasis of the emotion of the video and it made the girl seem like she was thinking.

The slow motion clips were also useful as it reflected on the idea that things were moving slowly for the girl, and her life was stuck at that moment.

We edited the speed of the clips by changing the the percentage which they were displayed, if it was set to 100% the footage was at the normal time however if we changed it to over 100% it would speed up and below 100% it would slow down.  Most of the time we used clips at between 60 - 80%

Filming

IT became clear to us that we may not have enough footage to fill in the gaps of our footage as the clips are so short and close together we decided to go out and do some more filming.

During lesson on Wednesday we took the camera out and filmed in some enclosed areas over central park and the opening of eastbrook end.

Below are some images of us filming;

Editing

Today in class we done some editing, some pictures of this are below;

The above image is one of our group members, Connor, editing the footage which we have. The below image is of a section of our music video which we have placed together for the start of the song.

The below image is of all the clips we have to chose from, for the london scene and when we went to film over central park on Wednesday. We will probably be using almost all of this in our footage.

              

Analysing the results of my survey monkey

Below are print screens of some of the results of my survey monkey;



From the above images it is a clear that a vierty of people took my survey, the answers were different, and the age groups ranged from 15 to 25, the type of music people listened to also differed and it shows that different people prefer different genres of music.

Checking the post for my Survey Monkey again

After posting my survey on facebook i decided to see if  I have gained any more feedback on my survey. After looking today i realised there has been an increase in responses.

Although i still only have 10 responses i don't think i will be gaining any more replies so i will analyse the responses that I do have and will soon be creating a wordle in order to see the results clearer.

However although i only have 10 responses this is not a negative thing as each member of the group has created a survey monkey meaning we all have individual feedback which we can share with each other.

Checking the Results for my Survey

Today i decided to check the results for my survey, to see if i had many responses.

Although i have 10 replies to my survey it has only been 4 days, i wont analyse these yet, as i will leave it a few more days to see if i can get a few more results.
In order to hopefully gain more feedback i published my survey onto my facebook homepage to see if any of my friends would answer the survey for me, below is an image;

Creating My Survey Monkey

Today i created my survey to gain a better understanding of the audience of music and people's opinions towards music videos. I want to know what people believe make a good video and if they thing the video is important to the music. I took some screenshots of my survey and the image are below;

Below is a link to my survey;

Click Here to go to My Survey