Production Log: Week 8

In our final week of editing we cut in the extra footage that we shot in the Brick Lane area and synched the sound up with the singing in the video.

We realised that we needed to add a scene where that main character is on her own, we decided to use Brick Lane as the location to shoot this scene as the heavily graffitied walls and narrow roads would give our video a slightly less mainstream look. We took a variety of shots from different angles so that when it came to the editing stage we would be able to pick the best footage to be in the music video.

Once we had put the footage onto the Mac and started editing we had to decide which shots to keep and in which order to put them in, me and Shryia had some different ideas but after discussing them we came to a compromise that resulted in better more rounded video.

One of the difficulties we face was that in some of the shots it was quite hard matching the audio to Shryia singing in the video, this meant that we had to cut the shots in different places to where we had planned but it was necessary in order to get the lip synching to a good standard.

I feel that overall this project me and Shryia have worked well together, our difference in music tastes and artistic ideas has meant that our music video has a well rounded feel that uses some of the main points of mainstream music videos but has also incorporated a slight indie feel.