Editing - Planning

Lyrics sheets - slideshows

Before I started editing I watched our footage again and printed out lyrics sheets for each location. I annotated a sheet while watch the video through, so that I knew which bits of the footage I could use when editing. Some of our footage we couldn't use because our artist did not sing the words, the camera was too shaky or the shot was out of the light and therefore we couldn't see our artist. I noted which part of the footage had these problems so that when it came to editing I was able to refer back to these sheets so I knew which base track I should use for a specific section of the song. This saved me time when it came to editing because I didn't have to keep watching each base track to see which part was best suited for the line in the song and deleting the ones that we didn't want to use. By placing the lyrics sheet in a line I was able to look for the exact lyrics to see which clip I marked as good and which I marked as unusable.

After I finished editing the base tracks I then began to edit in the footage of Umar and the extra shots we had of the city and our location. I made sure that I left 4 unused sequences at the top of the editing bar so that I was able to place the extra clips above the base track instead of trying to edit it into a gap between a base track. I made sure that I adjusted the speed of any clips that we wanted to modify before I placed it into the correct position of our music video. This is to ensure that I didn't waste time syncing up the clip and them having to do it again after I change the speed of the clip, also I was informed by my teacher that changing the speed while the clip is in the sequence because it will shift the rest of our footage.