Final Cut v1 - Titanium: DJ Soto

Here is v1 for the final cut for our music video.
 
Titanium - DJ Soto (Final Cut) from Shadow Inc. on Vimeo.

Refer to post titled 'Hello!' for the final cut of the music video.

FEEDBACK: Effects Cut v2

For our target audience feedback, another class from the younger demographic watched our music video and gave us feedback.


On average, editing had been rated 8 out of 10. The use of camerawork had been rated 7 out of 10.

Stop Motion Attempts

As a way to reduce the amount of time of the powder paint scene, I tried out some stop motion shots.

Effects Cut v2

Here is the second version of our effects cut. In this version, we completed the scribble effect and looked into ways of reducing the visual impact of the powder paint shot in the first chorus. We are still looking into this further.


Effects Cut v2 from Shadow Inc. on Vimeo.

Additional Research: Colour Correcting

In our target audience feedback, one suggestion was to make the powder paint bit colder as it did not go with the rest of the music video. As a result, I decided to look into different ways to change the colour of the chorus of the song.

I watched this video which allowed me to understand how to use the "Fast Colour Corrector" effect.


After watching this video, I decided to try it out in one part of our music video:
 

This created a really interesting hue and I also found that layer cross dissolves on top of each other had an unique effect as well (towards the end of the video), as it blurs and makes our character seem out of touch with reality.

Even though we may not use this in our real media product, it was definitely interesting to learn how to use different effects on Premier.

FEEDBACK: Effects Cut

As a group, we collected feedback for our effects cut. This will help us make changes for our final cut. We also took this opportunity to ask our target audience where else they wanted the scribble effect, which will also help in our final cut.

 

Edited by Kanaiya

The Editing Process

As my main roll was of the editor I had to ensure that not only my views and visions were accurately created but I had to work with my team to ensure they also received the final version of what they had envisioned in the first place. This document walks you through a variety of different parts of the editing process.

Editing process from Zeel Sanatkumar

Effects Cut v1

Effects Cut: Titanium - David Guetta ft. Sia from Shadow Inc. on Vimeo.

Additional Research: Ultra Key with Green Screen

As a group, we developed the idea of having fight scenes occurring during the walk to the altar of the church. We discussed with our editor, Zeel, that it would look visually aesthetic if the fight had no background and it was just transparent people fighting around him as he walked up. In order to make this possible, I looked at ways of using a green screen and increasing/decreasing opacity to make the shot stand out.



As a result of this research, we have been able to better understand the use of green screens and have learned how to adjust opacity and crop images on Photoshop. Moreover, we have been able to understand the use of the ultra/chroma screen which will be able to contribute to the effects cut of our music video.

FEEDBACK: Rough Cut

In order to collect target audience feedback, we used similar people to our target audience research in order to see what feedback they had. This allowed us to understand different things to take into consideration when completing the transition cut. We used a standard screen because of the camera used to film.




Edited by Kanaiya

As a group, this feedback was summarised in a convenient form so we can continuously look back at it for improvements.

Rough Cut

In terms of the quality of the video we had a few difficulties in exporting the video to a higher quality standard, we will ensure this issue will be fixed during our final music video.

Additional Research: Editing to the Beat

When editing the rough cut, a key issue was the editing and the way it synchronized with the fast beat in the song. As a result, I decided to look into different ways of editing to the beat. This is particularly because as our song is quite fast paced, long takes may not work well.



There are many advantages and disadvantages with using this technique. Some advantages are that it is quick to do and easy to understand. However, using this technique means that it may also be easy to make mistakes, so it may take some resilience to master.

To further enhance my understanding, I used a song and practice setting markers to edit to the beat. Here is my attempt.




Alongside this, I practiced the technique with our own footage from the rough cut using the markers which I learned to use from additional research.


This is how the work space looked when I was editing to the beat.

Shot Edit List

In order to figure out what shots we were going to be doing we did a shot scrutiny and i created a edit decision list in order to figure out exactly what shots are going to be used.

Shot Scrutiny

As a group, we went over the footage over the two days and selected footage that we would use towards the real media product.


Edited by Kanaiya

Behind the Scenes: Test Shoot & Real Shoot

Before and during the shoot, Shadow Inc. decided to take some behind the scene pictures in our test shoot. During the test shoot, we also used the different equipment and made sure we could use it properly. This allowed us to be more aware about how to use the equipment on our two shoot days, and the pictures for both of these are shown below.



This is another image of the green screen we used after the day of shoot.