P5 - EDITING PROCESS

Hazel was our editor for this project. Natasha and I helped with the process of editing with suggestions and acted as another two pairs of eyes to catch any mistakes or bad edits. We started by adding the song into the timeline as an audio file and building up the structure for the full video.

ASSEMBLY 1




This process consisted of adding the relevant footage where it was required in the storyboard and filling in any gaps with placeholders. We had to split our editing into two sections: the first with half of our footage, the second with the rest of the footage. This was because we edited between filming dates to ensure we were on track.


Without having to worry about the colours of each shot early on, we could all focus on the sequence of shots we were arranging in order to illustrate the song in an interesting way. Hazel decided that we would switch around a few shots from the initial storyboard, such as the extreme closeup of my mouth.
We also had to factor in the fact that the artist wanted to remain relatively anonymous and so we worked out a way to keep a single element of the performance that you'll see in the second cut, where we show his hand strumming a guitar rather than an ECU of his face.




ASSEMBLY 2



I wasn't present for the bulk of the editing in our second assembly, so Hazel and Natasha consulted each other when they were preparing it. It deviates much more drastically from the storyboard in this assembly, which I think is an improvement because each clip follows on very fluidly in a way it was hard to envision just using a storyboard.

They got onto colour grading over a few days and I was back for the latter part of this, meaning I could again give my own opinions on it. We went with a blue hue on each shot, emphasising the colours of the coat and scarf. The only problem we had with this was caused by the colour of the tunnel. It was difficult to colour grade because it was so yellow, which proved frustrating but there wasn't too much we could do in the time we had. hazel also played around with some filters and we all decided we really liked the cartoon effect - it gave the video the surreal quality we had envisioned in the first place.

FINAL VIDEO

To create this thumbnail, Hazel merged together four separate shots taken from the same perspective. Starting with the sitting rabbit, she overlaid each shot on top of the base shot and erased it up to a certain point, so that everything would line up correctly and create a bizarre final image.