Final effects over the music video

After finishing editing, the final part of the video needed was to use colour correction and various effects on the video. After viewing a few music videos, I came across a video which distinguished camera angles by different colour effects applied to them. The video, on one certain camera angle, applies a black and white effect. This, as a simple effect, seems to make quite a difference. We are planning to use this for one of the camera angles used throughout the gig footage of our video. I have embedded the video below.



Similarly, in this video, the audio at the end goes from the studio recorded music to the live performance with the crowd at the end. We took on board this interesting edit, and have used the same transition to the audience cheering from the studio music at the end in our music video.

Editing process

After a long and grueling series of complications, our editing of our music video is almost complete. As my concentration has been fully on the editing process, my blogging of editing has slowed down.

We ran into a number of problems, which we have eventually overcome, which include:

• File format - our video format was a file type which meant that Final Cut Express would make us have to render each piece of footage over and over every time any sort of change was made. For the first few weeks, we only got a very tiny amount edited due to having to re-render every time we made a change. Eventually we found a format we could convert all of our clips into so that we would not have to render. Though at first converting all the videos was time-consuming, after that we had a much easier time editing, with the ability to micro-manage timing.
• Space - our high-definition footage was very large in space, and our amount of clips we ended up with filled up the hard drive completely on our editing Mac. To tackle this, we originally started deleting the clips which we had simply put in a folder labelled 'Unusable'. After that, we realised much of our footage had duplicates, due to the unconverted footage still on the hard drive. Deleting every clip which we had already converted freed up almost 60 gigabytes of space, which conquered our problem.
• General filming problems - these include not all people being able to make filming dates, weather problems for continuity, filled space on the SD cards during filming days, location availability. 

Music video thus far - 31/3/11

Today we showcased our music video to the rest of our media group with a very rough cut. Uploaded above is the unfinished version, with, unfortunately, was exported at a low quality. The music is extremely 'boomy' for an unknown reason, which we did not have time to fix. However, it does give an idea of how the editing and shots are coming along.
The large black holes are where we have not inserted footage. Once we had all the gig footage, we cut the useful pieces and inserted them where they fitted. Therefore, the video has random pieces of the gig footage inserted. Also, due to our pre-production brainstorming, we had ideas of where we wanted certain shots to go, and thus we put those where we felt fit. We decided to edit this way rather than going through doing shot by shot and leaving no gaps, as then we knew how much we had to fill in and where. This also gave us an indication of how progressed the narrative was.