Editing the music video

I have started log and capturing the footage that can be used on to Final Cut Pro, at the moment it seems that there is sufficient enough footage to complete the whole music track. We have decided to create an introduction before the actual video starts and this will be done through footsteps which will be accompanied by background sounds of actual footsteps and at that point is when the actual video will begin, we will finish the video with end credits.

Shooting...Done!

After a long and hard few weeks, we have finally finished shooting our music video and hopefully have enough footage for the duration of the song. As a team we have learnt a lot during the shooting stage of our music video, cooperation is key when working with a group of people who share different views and opinions and we made sure that no arguments or quarrels ensued during the shooting period. A big thank you also to the cast of dancers especially Simone who without we would not have been able to create this music video.

Call Sheet #3

Call Sheet #3

Director/Costumes: Layla El-Alami
Contact number: 0796118798
Email: layla.el7@hotmail.com

Producer: Derryl Swaby

Location: Media Suit
Unit call: 11.45am
On location: 12:00pm
Set: Black screen
Camerman: Haroon Ahmed

Editor: Nawid Obaydi

Makeup Artist: Layla El-Alami


Artist: Princess Landa, performed by Simone

Dancers:

Simone

Yannik O'Holi

Zarah


Chris


Kiana

Transport: Walkin/Bus if necessary

11.30am Call

12.00pm Meet in the Media Suit

Load Equipment/Set

Location Contact: TJ, Dave, Dan12.05pm Unload Equipment

Set and Light

12.10pm Hair and Makeup for artist

Hair and Makeup for Dancers

Rehearse AND Shoot

1.50pm Pack up and return all equipment

Evaluation of Shoot #3

Pleased to say our third shoot was a success! We managed to organise ourselves much more effectively this time and arrived at the media suite a while before the artist and the dancers to set up the equipment and fix the lighting. Our director Layla was first on the scene as she did not have a lesson during the time at which we were scheduled to film but I soon came after and Haroon and Deryll followed as well. We had to make sure we all stayed motivated including the artist and dancers because this was our third shoot and some were getting tired of filming the same thing over and over again, nevertheless we all stayed optimistic!

Artist Problems...

Unfortunately we have had even more problems with our artist, our replacement who was originally going to act as Princess Landa has suffered an illness so therefore we have had to delegate the role of Princess Landa to Simone who is also one of our dancers. I believe Simone is much more suited to the role of Princess Landa as she is very confident and that is what we are trying to portray the artist as being as.

OUR MAIN DANCER/ARTIST SIMONE:

Final Cut Pro Training

I have decided to sacrifice my time after college on most days in order to go to the editing suite and familiarise myself with final cut pro, I used the footage from the Beech location which I decided was good to train on as it will not be used in our actual music video. I burnt a CD with the MP3 track of 'No Time Fi Dem' in order to be able to sync the music with what the artist is actually saying.

Me and the rest of my team have set high hopes in the editing process of our music video and as it is the most time consuming I also took with me a few tutorials that I had printed off the computer. I am now able to create the 'Sin City' effect on Final Cut Pro and also familiarised myself with other effects such as 'Dazzle'.

Shoots 1 and 2 Evaluation

The complexity of filming a music video had been shown to us when we watched over the footage and realised that NONE of the footage we have filmed is suitable enough to be used in the editing process, the main problems looking back were the lighting which was either too bright or too dark which gave a distorted look to the artist and the dancers and also the unwanted objects in the background such as the radiator in the beech location which could definitely not be corrected during editing. Time is running out but the advantage of going through such an issue is that now we are much more prepared as a team and know what must be done in our next shoot.

Using three cameras also proved to be an ineffective strategy as it meant three times the work when editing due to the fact I have to keep switching in between tapes so we have decided to stick to one tape from now on and also stick to shooting in one location being the media suite as we have everything we need and there are no unwanted objects in the background.

Hopefully now we have all learnt our lesson and the next shoot will be a success!