During
the process of completing research and primarily starting our ancillary
products, Harvey has been constantly working on editing our music video and
therefore he is effectively updating us with his results throughout. As a group,
we are all determined to achieve unique, inspiring and impressive results by
confidently experimenting when necessary and being brave and bold within our
decisions. As a group, we discussed trying techniques which would distract
viewers from the lack of footage. It is exciting to attempt and incorporate
different techniques and styles, however Harvey has to be careful not to allow
the video to become too repetitive and for the shots to make sense.
For
instance, as we understand, our rough cut for our music video has already been
completed and therefore we are happy for Harvey to be confident and attempt to incorporate
and weave other footage into the cut. He explained he wanted the editing to be
completed in an effective and interesting way to prevent viewers from becoming tiresome
or bored whilst watching. Therefore, when Harvey was examining footage to weave
within his rough performance cut, he constantly bared in mind the idea of
thinking outside of the box and immediately introducing elements in the video
to entice the viewer. For example, he instantly began by choosing footage of
Luca, one of our cast members spray painting. Similarly, Harvey played around
with several shots of Luca spray painting and instead cut the shots to the beat
of our track to make it more entertaining and flowingly rhythmic. Although
Harvey is prepared to challenge himself within editing and take risks, he found
this first editing process fairly simple although the shots were quick. We similarly wanted our video to instantly introduce
and represent our artist, therefore we started with the spray painting of her
name, ‘SIOUX.’
As
this is a group effort Fran and myself allowed Harvey to know we appreciated
his first editing attempt and direction and are therefore happy and relieved
for Harvey to carry on. We also agreed to use the same direction of quick shots
throughout, so the video flowed and didn’t look random, however we are excited
to see his experiments.
Rapid
editing
Similar
to this, Harvey also tried another type of editing in this session, called
rapid editing. As I understand, rapid editing consists of numerous shots which
continuously race and flash between each other in time with the beat. In order
to achieve this type of editing, Harvey picked three different shots of footage
and then cut between them every millisecond creating fast paced, interesting and
impressive aspects to our video.
Jump
editing
As well
as experimenting with the rapid edit technique, Harvey also challenged himself
to incorporate a jumpy, staggered type of edit. For instance, a jumpy edit is
where the footage shown seems a lot closer than it is as the shots jump closer
and closer. This is achieved by cutting seconds away from one stream of
footage.
Harvey will continuously carry on editing and his next step is to complete a full rough edit in order to show our teachers, Luke, Phil and Matt. By showing them it will gain further suggestions and advice towards our video to help improve it.
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