Editing our Rough Cut

After shooting our music video, we knew that we did not have as much editing to do as the other groups. However, we knew that it would be equally as hard, if not more, and would mean that we all need to work together to produce an incredible end product. Whilst editing we came across a few problems, due to the lighting being different in all rooms we couldn’t keep changing the exposure or stopping and setting it to the right one as it was all one shot. So, in Adobe after effects we set to work on trying to enhance the light in some areas of the shot, as in a few frames you are unable to see Luke singing. The way we achieved this was by rotoscoping, which is where we used a ‘mask’ on the section we wanted to lighten up in the frames and adjust the exposure for that area to brighten it up. We decided to do this for the entire shot of the orchestra room because when following Luke to the chair we couldn’t see his face at all. But using this tool meant that we were able to circle his face, mask, and then adjust the brightness so that only his face would lighten up and not the rest of the shot. This meant that we could keep the whole feel of the calming candles and the sound of the music the same. But we needed to make sure that we did not over expose his face otherwise there would be too many pixels in the area chosen to lighten and it would become grainy and wont look professional.

 

Another factor added to the shot was the fireworks, because there was a health and safety issue with using massive ones we have to edit them into the shot. So, we used fireworks which we decided to shoot due to all the different firework shows that were going on. Once this was filmed we imported the fireworks into the music video footage we had already shot, then used the track tool which meant that the fireworks would move along with the camera instead of staying in one position and looking unrealistic. We chose the top of the house where the fireworks would be going off from, this meant viewers could see the fireworks in a good position.