Account Of Editing Footage

After finishing our final shoot day we digitised our footage onto final cut server where we could check it in and out of there to bring it up on 'pro' final cut. To start to edit a rough cut we used an audio file to put on the timeline so we could manage a sync shot of the rush's we had.

Our initial idea was to have the band playing with ruby shot after shot and at the very beginning have a big wide to give the audience a full picture, but we then decided to hide the band to create a journey throughout the beginning of the video until a wide of them to reveal themselves to hide the band the shots we used were CUs of instrumental on the guitar, bass and drums and Ruby’s body for shots. We used a blue screen on our rooftop section and our tunnel area, the best way of syncing the song with each shot was lyrics to Ruby’s mouth and using band section was the drummer’s snare to his own hit. We then exported the blue screen files and saved them as quick time files where we could import them onto After Effects when the shots were imported we needed to scale the background to make it look real for example the ‘skyline’. We needed to fit the right picture size for example a close up of ruby meant to make the background blurred using gloss where in contrast the wide was a very straight and clear picture the tunnel was easy to use as we decided to plaster copy’s of our own tunnel we had a lot more times either scale them up or down the ones that scaled down were ones that got darker and more blurred to give the effect of she is deep down at the bottom of the tunnel after using a red outline to give it a great feel of a tunnel escape. After that we used bright lights on the skyline to make it look authentic.

Then we did our moving shots where we had to make the background scale up or down to the meaning of the zoom or the reach out for example when we went close on Dan’s face playing the guitar the city had to zoom with it we did that by placing one background at the start of the process and finished with a completely different image size at the end to see it go in and out using bogeys. After we put our after effects on we then rendered each shot onto a quick time flie so we could import each file back onto 'pro' final cut so our video could flow and used again by placeing each after effect shot onto our timeline so we can replace the blue and that our video looked real.