After shooting our video, it was time for the rough cut and then the final edit. We used Final Cut Pro to cut and edit our music video. We started with a rough cut to put all of our clips roughly where we wanted them to get a vague idea of how it was going to look.
The first thing that was essential was linking up the music track to our lip sync and performance element. It didn't really account for the rest of our shots as it was mainly a narraive element that we had to place in ourselves. We found this a bit difficult at times because it kept slipping out of place, but we managed to get to grips with it after practise.
We started by cutting the pre-roll together which needed a lot of work because of the diegetic sound as it was speaking. We later edited this in soundtrack by putting in sounds of birds and footsteps to make it more realistic. This was relitively easy as it was similar to the thriller work from last year.
We used short cuts in sections of our video to the beat of the music to add the mystery and suspence, linking back to sections of the performance element. We realised that we never got round to shooting the band part and we were worried about how this would look. After our rough cut, we realised that it actually worked very nicely just having the lead singer lip sync throughout.
I found that my skills with Final Cut have developed a lot since using it in the past and I was a lot more confident with the tools. Once we started and got into the post-production, it became very easy and flowed well. We were finished in good time which allowed us to do some final retouches.
We used after effects to boost up the saturation to make the colours stand out.
Overall I am really happy with how the post-production went and I feel we worked really well together as a group. I look forward to seeing the how the final product turns out with the digipak and poster alongside it.
The first thing that was essential was linking up the music track to our lip sync and performance element. It didn't really account for the rest of our shots as it was mainly a narraive element that we had to place in ourselves. We found this a bit difficult at times because it kept slipping out of place, but we managed to get to grips with it after practise.
We started by cutting the pre-roll together which needed a lot of work because of the diegetic sound as it was speaking. We later edited this in soundtrack by putting in sounds of birds and footsteps to make it more realistic. This was relitively easy as it was similar to the thriller work from last year.
We used short cuts in sections of our video to the beat of the music to add the mystery and suspence, linking back to sections of the performance element. We realised that we never got round to shooting the band part and we were worried about how this would look. After our rough cut, we realised that it actually worked very nicely just having the lead singer lip sync throughout.
I found that my skills with Final Cut have developed a lot since using it in the past and I was a lot more confident with the tools. Once we started and got into the post-production, it became very easy and flowed well. We were finished in good time which allowed us to do some final retouches.
We used after effects to boost up the saturation to make the colours stand out.
Overall I am really happy with how the post-production went and I feel we worked really well together as a group. I look forward to seeing the how the final product turns out with the digipak and poster alongside it.
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