Production - First day of Editing

Today we came into the editing suite to begin our first day of editing

 We started of laying down the shots that we wanted to open the music video with as oppose to laying down all our base tracks which we plan to do straight after the opening scene, we thought that this would be easier as we would have something small to work with once the base tracks have been laid down.

We played around with the opening scene of James walking over a bridge towards the camera. As he walks towards the camera, we manipulate the shot to fast forward his steps as he gets closer. This reoccurs three times till he gets towards the camera.

To ensure that we get the lip syncing in time with the music, we started off marking one word in the song - "inhale" so that we knew when to cut from the first shot we laid down as well as syncing the singing and the music. 

Throughout editing, we found that the shots designated in the box on the bottom left was quite confusing so we made three different files that included the different shots that were spread out on three different days. This made editing easier as we want to start the video with the shots in the day and ending the video with the night shots, so having the shots in different files made it easier for us to edit. 

The first day was very fun and it was great to finally start putting the shots together and having some idea of how the final music video will look. It was really exciting to see the opening of the music video come together  and I really look forward to editing some more.