Music Video- Editing

In the AS thriller piece learning to edit was a long process, this time even with an updated software I felt like I had the knowledge to create a more creative and better edited piece of footage. The main issue that i'd never had before was that I had too much footage. The song is 4 minutes 19 seconds long this meant for the six sins/ scenes there should be about 43 seconds each. 


When I first began to edit I ignored the amount of time it was going to be and just concentrated on making the narrative of each scene work. This left me with 5 out of 6 scenes being an except able duration and just one scene Greed being considerably longer. Trying to edit this scene in a way that would bring back the balance to the piece was my biggest task. I attempted to do this by going through each clip and trying to cut down each one by a few seconds or milliseconds. This worked to a point, but then I realised that I needed to cut out a more dramatic amount of the narrative to make it work. When filming the shot I broke the scene down into 4 parts. Part 1 was the woman coming through the door and placing her shopping bags down. Part 2 was her walking over to the sofa and getting a drink. Part 3 was getting up to collect the envelopes then walking back to her seat. Part 4 was opening up the envelopes. Part 4 I sped up because the shots were over 40 seconds long just for two envelopes to be opened. 


The excess amount of film is much better than a lack of footage all together, it took about 3 hours of cutting milliseconds off all the clips but especially Greed because I was unable to cut any of the parts out without having a lack of a range of shots or the narrative of that scene not making sense. 


After getting it down to the right length, I got some non-media background people to give me feedback on how it looks, this is without music. I did this so then if I made a blatant error it could be fixed before adding the music. Once the music is added it is much more difficult to edit, so after correcting the non-media background criticisms i'll get a BTEC media student from the local college to look and see if he has any tips and can see any errors. Then the music will be applied and i'll be able to get the final audience feedback. 


Look at Music Video- Initial Feedback for how I conducted the focus group and the editing I did as a result of the feedback. 

Music Video- Envy

Research 
In the film Se7en Envy was shown through the Envy the killer had for Brad Pitt's character, 


I brainstormed this idea because I thought it would be good if the lust for the person had turned them into almost a stalker. 
Within the media I felt gay relationships are still a taboo, and because of this I chose to have a man being envious to the point of stalking and insanity. This would show diversity and something different which would make the video stand out. 


I decided to look into the first time this taboo was broken within the media industry so I could find out more about how much of an issue the media made it out to be. 

This is an article I found about the first time a gay couple appeared on a music video, the person in the band who was portraying one half of the gay couple is known as being gay by the press didn't see the "issue" with it. This was in 2008 and a break through of this kind is huge to those in the population who are gay and it brings more social acceptance to them. 

Its shows Stephen Gately intimately with another man, but only in the same way in which the other members of the band are with woman so he's right in that there shouldn't be an issue because it is legal for two men to get married in this society so music video's should be able to show both straight and gay relationships without there being any issue. 


I more recent example of this is Katy Perry's music video to Firework which shows two men kissing, this shows the progression of society because there were few articles writing this up as an issue. 


Here's the video to demonstrate how it has gone from being acceptable within media just to show an intimate conversation to being able to show gay couple kissing. 








In my Envy clip, I won't be able to use a a clip in which the two men interact as it will ruin the theme i'm going for throughout that lust is a memory or an illusion. Instead i'm going to have it quite eerie with the Envy man creating a picture of him and Lust by cutting out the face of a girl creating the photo then burning the girls face to show the Envy he feels is an extreme way. 


Planning 
I created a theme board for the  Envy character; 

Here's Lust; 

From this and my idea, I created a storyboard to allow me to look at the way in which the scene would take place and this would help me on the day and keep me to the timetable which I'm going to create on the call sheet. 

Preparation for video shoot day 6 of 6

These are the photo's I picked to have of the Envy person and the Lust who Envy will paste together. 

The picture frame with just Envy in it.

This is the room I decided to use because it is small it was easy to make it seem dark and eerie.

The desk which will be the main focus of filming, the candles are missing from the piece which he burns the girls face from the picture. 

Call sheet; 

The call sheet made me stay on track and held vital information.