Beginning the editing process

Having learnt as to how to use the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro CC for our thriller opening sequences last year, I looked forward to being able to review our footage and begin the editing process as soon as our rushes had been uploaded.

Having filmed on Monday, we were ready to begin editing Tuesday afternoon. The editing process began with reviewing our footage as a group. Aware that we had not managed to get all the shots we had wanted and would therefore be perhaps a bit lacking on what footage we would be able to use when editing together our music video, our expectations were unfortunately met. Most of the shots we had were somewhat limited, and nor did we manage to get a great deal of variation. However, the lip-sync (although always expected to be good) turned out phenomenally and we are in great debt to our fabulous actress, Juli. This gave us confidence as at the very least we would have a stellar performance cut - and with good, interesting editing, we could possibly make up for our lack of footage.

Beginning the actual editing, we correctly lined up all of our footage to the corresponding musical queues and timing, specifically focusing on aligning all of the lip-syncs effectively. Unfortunately, for reasons unbeknownst to us, the clapper's timing failed in aiding us with the task, and so we were forced to time all the footage off of audio notes - noticeably the heavy bass sound preceding the actual track.

With this done, I then began to play around with the various lip-syncs in order to create a rough 'performance' cut (i.e: a full video to the track comprised up entirely out of lip-sync footage; the performance). Given how well Juli performed the track on the day, we had plenty of footage and three lip-syncs to chose between for this part of the editing process, which made my life significantly easier.

With this completed, my next job is to start playing around with the other footage we captured, and try incorporating it into my performance cut to get a more interesting and better balanced video.