Editing progress

In between filming we have been constantly editing our raw footage in and out of lessons, and creating our timeline and adding all kinds of various effects working on top gradually. Here is an example of our stages and what raw, original footage we started are editing process with;

We started by  cropping the sections in the raw footage that we wanted to used, and dragged them onto a different level of the time line once done. This allowed us to see which bits were useful, and would save us much time in the future.

The first part of our video we edited was the white room footage, overlaying, de saturation, here are some of the process:

Above is example of overlaying techniques being used, we particularly did this with the combining of the sign filming with the white room scene, to emphasis the fast cuts and help construct meaning in the video.

A further example of the same technique being used. We are particularly proud of our white room parts so far, especially the fast cuts and energy reflected in the editing.

Secondly we moved on to editing the band footage, lip syncing was no doubt going to be a challenge.

The band shots were are first shots in our timeline, i felt this worked well as the lyrics are abrupt, the opening singing scene also needed to be, we felt the opening shot does reflect this energy and abrupt entrance. One of our first steps with the band footage was to de saturate the footage and correct the contrast, we did by using the colour corrector tools, shown above.

We also went further and experiment different techniques we could add with the band footage. Above is an overlay of drumming close up footage, with the added affect of 'multiply' which makes the overlayed objects darker parts very darker and the lighter part see through, this adds a more surreal affect, then i adjusted the positioning of the frame to position the lead signer face in the middle.

Also when we were editing the band footage in some places we felt it was appropriate to put the footage in slow motion to go with the pace and tempo of the song, to create the correct visual atmosphere to the song. For this we experimented with the speed levels, as shown above.

We began editing the homeless footage next, when editing this, we discovered the effects of cropping footage and inserting other frames and cropping them all to fit in a single well composed shot. For example below we decided to divide the frames into horizontal panels.

Similarly with the prostitute footage i experimented with cropping and inserting numerous frames into one composition. However for the prostitute scene i experimented into using four squares to make up one composition, each square different footage; same as the homeless cropping edit. i found this provided a link between the two situations, to help the audience recognise they were similar in both being unfortunate situations.