Today after school, me, Wini and Sophia returned to the editing suite. Now that we have the first section of the video roughly edited we needed to move onto putting in the footage from the rooftop.
Before we started we had a discussion about how we wanted to incorporate this footage in a way that would make sense and flow nicely with the rest of the video.
We decided that it would be good if the footage came in right after the end of the first chorus and that we wouldn't use any more of the Brighton footage for now. We needed the first shot to be an interesting one, so we chose quite an abstract shot of Jem walking against the harsh grey sky. We felt this fit quite well with the tone of the song as the juxtaposes the 'romantic' footage, this is key as we wanted it to be clear that he is reminiscing about a past love.
We wanted to use a mixture of shots where he is lip syncing and when he is dancing/playing guitar on the roof.
We all made a unanimous decision to cut some of the shots of Jem dancing as he looks slightly awkward. It is of vital importance that he looks natural and cool, as he needs to be convincing as a polished mainstream artist.
We continued to cut in the projection shots to make sure that the video flows and that it keeps the interest of the viewers.
At the end of this session we got to the second chorus and we were all really happy with the work that we have done today. Watching the video coming together is relieving as we were all anxious that it wouldn't make sense, however i believe that, so far, it makes sense and flows really nicely.
We need maybe two more sessions to finish the rough cut of the video, so we will try and complete these sessions by the end of November.
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