Video Construction

Monday 11th April 2016

To begin with the video we first transferred all our videos to the computer and placed them into Sony Vegas Pro which is the software we'll be using to edit this video. The first thing we went through was syncing up all of the lip syncing shots so that we'd know what room we had to play with afterwards. This took a fair bit of time but we decided it was key to get the lip syncing down as then we wouldn't have to work on it later on.

Tuesday 12th April 2016

Today we added in a large portion of the footage as we had a lot of spare time. Doing this let us get a general overview of what our video will turn out like, this was beneficial as we were able to chop and change shots where we see fit. We also played around with colour curves and the saturation of the shots to fix where it was too dark or too bright.

Wednesday 13th April 2016

Today we had a bit of a rejig with the footage in order to make it tell the story better, this is because when we looked over what we had done already we decided that it was a bit all over the place in terms of the story and this clearly isn't what we wanted our video to do. We also decided it would be good if we made the entire video desaturated as it's supposed to convey a sad message which black and white does well at. 

Monday 18th April 2016

Today whilst editing the video we realised we were beginning to start lacking on footage, we decided it would be beneficial to make some of the footage last longer in the video and so just added bits onto the end of certain parts. This helped and added on 15 seconds of extra video which is quite a big chunk of time considering the length of the overall video.

Thursday 21st April 2016

Today we had unfortunately ran out of original footage for our video and so required more in order to complete the video. Knowing this we planned out times in order to shoot more and therefore finish the video. Overall this was just a minor blip and could've clearly been a lot worse had we ran out of footage the day before the deadline.

Friday 29th April 2016

Today the video was finished but looking back at the storyboard, We've noticed that we've essentially made a completely different video. We we're going to stick to the storyboard but when we started to film we found out soon that finding space for all of us to go out filming together was ineffective and so we decided to change the idea completely. Despite this change to the shots we still stuck to the basic story line. We also feel that changing the shots and angles from our original plan has actually helped our video appear a lot more unique and overall better.