Dairy of a day in Editing

Day 1 - 10th October

The editing equipment we used

Because of the problems we had with using software outside of school we have began to use the school editing equipment 'Pinnical'. Firstly we have had to scan our camera for all of the footage to be transferred into pinnical once all our footage was on the computer we need to put the song into the document so that we could sucessfully put the footage together with the song so the correct shots were in the right areas to match the narrative and rythm of the song

Lip syncing in the music video

Day 2- 13th October

Now that all our footage has been put virtually in place we have to go through it and ensure that all the shots are edited smoothly and that all the shots are in the correct areas. We also needed to make shure the editing went together with the beat of the for example at the begining of the video at each beat change we tried to put in a different shot. Furthermore we had to make sure that none of the shots were too long at that the rapid editing suited the tempo of the song also it was important that the areas of the song that contained lip syncing were perfectly in time with the music so that the editing looked professional.

Day 3 - 17th October

Now we were happy with the placement and editing of most of our shot we then had to do the difficult task of trying to make the shots that went with the lines 'dodododadododadadododadododadododado' chance each time a new 'do' or 'da' was said so shots went perfectly in time. Reflecting the tempo of the lyrics. This was ecspecially difficult when trying to edit the shots of the post it notes for each do or da ad it was virtually impossible to get each post it note to appear on the beat. After a huge time spent trying to get each post it note to appear at the correct time we were happy that we had sucessfully edited it to flow as smoothly as possible and suit the songs tempo as much as we could possibly do.

Day 4-20th October

Resturant Footage

Since our last editing session we have filmed more footage for the resturant scene so we just had to begin by uploading our new footage and then try to condense the shots so that they fit into the gap we had previously left for the section to be put into.This piece of editing went well and we sucessfully filmed and then edited the resturant clips.

Day5- 22nd October

The sunset idea that fades out at the end of the video

We tried to make the shots of the flower flash in at each beat

By this time we were happy with our videos progress so far and we felt asif we were almost finished, so we asked two of our media teacher to watch what we had completed so far. There feedback was very positive they said they really liked the summery and quirky theme of our video and that they felt we had some very creative and clever ideas within it, They also said they felt as if we had a good range of interesting shots. However they felt the editing had altered only slightly so that each shot was exactually on beat they suggested we sit listening to the song tapping our feet to the beat to ensure we knew exactually when each temp change occured. Furthermore one of our teaches suggested that we try to capture a sunset on film to be put at the end to finish of the video so that it faded out to a sunset. We took on board this advice and spent the day tidying up the editing we had done and later that night we went outside to film the sun setting this went well and was put at the end as was suggested to fade out with the music.