Construction - Day 6 of Editing

Day 6 of editing pretty much involved the same process as previous days of editing. We had filmed new clips in the same location as the previous days of filming. Our video was nearly complete meaning that the clips filmed were clips that needed re-filming or “filler” clips. The editing day also proved to be long and strenuous as still a high level of editing knowledge was needed to achieve our intended effects. The most difficult clips to edit were clips that saw Michael jumping off a bridge. Because Michael couldn’t actually jump off a bridge editing was needed to give off this effect. The way in which we filmed this was a shot from the side and from the front of Michael jumping over the safety bar and a POV shot of the camera falling towards the water. This had to be carefully edited so the desired effect could be portrayed to the audience. After many attempts of trying to create the affect all these attempts proved futile as the footage wasn’t good enough. In the end what we decided to do was was to partially scrap the POV shot as it did not look “real” enough then just use the side shot and front shot. We then stopped the front shot on a particular part where Michael’s face could be seen. We then cross dissolved footage of the water over this stopped clip and added a splashing noise indicating to the audience that he had jumped into the water. I believe that this was a success as I feel that the audience will still get the idea that the artist jumped without physically seeing it.

Another part of editing which was perhaps more difficult than this was trying to lip sync and create a split screen for a particular part of the song. The effect we wanted was to have “two” Michaels on screen having a conversation with each other while lip syncing a certain part of the song. The filming day before saw  Michael finding it very hard to lip sync this part of the song so when editing came a long there were many of the same type of clip which proved to be a lengthy task finding the correct one. After the correct clips were found we then had to lips sync each clip to the corresponding part of the song. This was successful even though Michael had trouble lip syncing we were still able to fit together certain parts of the clip and the music. After this was done the split screen effect then had to be created.  This was unsuccessful as it could easily be seen that the two clips were separate where as the split screen effect means it looking like it was all filmed at once. Because of this we decided we could not use it in the video leading us to completely scarp the idea of the split screen effect. We then tried to come up with other ideas of how we could film it but no ideas came to fruition meaning we cut that section if the song out of the music video. Instead of just completely cutting it out we downloaded the instrumental of the song and matched it up to the correct place in the music video then had that playing instead. This helped in cutting down the length of our music video.

-BYRAN FERROL-