K.H. Reflection on editing

• This week I worked on both the mock-up of the digipak and the editing timeline.
• For the digipak we were initially planning a pane inspired by the lyrics video to Liquid Lunch which utilises a number of props with visual motifs associated with the 1920s period setting. This would be quite simple in practice as we still have most of the props we bought for each shoot, and it would be a shame not to put them to further use. For the actual panel we were planning to arrange the props in a similar way to this on a green screen so that we could carry them all over cleanly and minimise the effort that would be required in individually arranging them on Photoshop.

• For the mock-up we used found images, cut out the backgrounds with the magic wand tool in a separate window, and added them to the mock-up. We arranged them neatly and in parallel to each other in a similar way to how they are in the music video, and imitated the vignette effect, although we used a red-background for our mock-up. Obviously the props we used in our mock-up were different, for example the feather boa would replace the train track.

• We encountered some problems with our footage earlier in the week, as Premier would crash under our footage which we had been unable to convert into a more accessible file type until recently.
• The scale of the project also makes editing more difficult as there is more footage and even though we done all three shoots we needed to, not all the footage was in school, meaning we had to edit with some gaps, which could pose a problem in the future when we insert the new footage, as it may not flow into the footage we already had in place, forcing us to retro-actively alter what we had already done.
• Editing music videos proved more difficult than editing the horror opening last year as we are far more restricted with the how long each edit has to be, and if a take is over the allocated time it has, then parts of it will have to be cut. This particularly proved to be a problem when editing the footage we captured at the Pantiles, as we were not as careful with our timings as we had been on previous shoots when the lyrics were more important, and we need specific time codes from the song to guide us. This is definitely a mistake I made while on location and something I would have changed if I had the chance.