Editing

Editing started first thing on the Monday morning after filming. As Helen was the producer of the DVD extras, she focused on editing the interview we filmed on the day of the shoot, while Sarah and I started editing the main video. 

We started by importing all of our footage from all four cameras into Adobe Premiere Pro. Then we named each shot as appropriate, so that it was easier to find what shot we needed when editing onto the timeline. This was a very effective way for conserving time.

We decided to find a shot that was in sync all the way through the song, as a back up plan if a shot that we planned to use didn't fit in or wasn't to a high enough standard. 

Sarah and I had put together a few shots, making sure they were as synced as we could get them and asked for Helen and our teacher's opinion. They were very realistic with their constructive criticism and me and Sarah were able to amend and improve the production. We made sure to have a wide variety of shots- wide shots of the band as a whole and close ups mainly on Wolfie, whilst not leaving the other band members out. 

We then showed it to our teacher again and some of our classmates and they said that they didn't think the narrative went in any particular order and was therefore confusing and they didn't understand the story. Thus me and Helen decided to take out all of the narrative shots and start again, agreeing on an order and one that would make more sense. We started with arguing shots to show that that was what was going on at that moment in time and then gradually progress into black and white happy memories. Something which was perhaps unconventional for a classic rock video which we decided would be appropriate was the fade transitions to the happier scenes. We felt that this added to the effect of the black and white and reiterated the fact that it was a memory and in the past. This change got positive feedback from all the class members, which was greatly encouraging. 

We then sent the finished video to the band and when they replied we were upset and slightly confused to see that they didn't like it. They gave us a few positive pointers, but most of it was negative. They had a problem with the syncing of the instruments and the technicalities of who was singing at particular times. When we tried to rectify this issue we discovered that all our raw footage had been deleted from the computers due to the school technicians updating the software. Thankfully we had exported the video before this had happened, so we did not lose our work. However, we were upset that we weren't able to improve the video for the band's satisfaction, but hope that they will use it nonetheless.