MUSIC VIDEO

FINALLY! Here it is! Our final piece :D

Reportage - All you need is NOW!

Editing is done!

We have finished our editing! Matt and Luke had a final look at it and said everything is perfect that means we can improve the quality to be High Definition and upload it to YouTube to show the audiences the work we have done!
Finally! 

CD Digipack photoshop

Photoshop software is a harsh thing for us, as no one knows how to use it in our group, so our working is going slow enough. The front cover was chosen and we started making the girls even more beautiful then they are. Tried some filters on , however haven't decided on one yet! Work in progress!:)

Working on a website

Today we have done some new contribution to the image of our website on WIX.com. Uploaded some of the images we have done ourselves from the IPhone of the shooting day, and also some stills we did on the day on his camera.
We added small images on the very first page of the website and also to the Gallery!
Written some information about our final editing things, and write twitts for the fans to look forward for the video as it will come up soon!:)

http://genevievecorich.wix.com/repotage1

Good News!

Ted Jackson had a look at our video, and enjoyed it a lot! He said he knows somebody from Duran Duran, so after we do the whole video, he will give it to them! Maybe we can even have some feedback from the real artist! That's thrilling! Looking forward!:)

Editing in progress - modeling shots

In order to not ruin everything we have done, we had to collect and group the modelling shots separately on another sequence that we called 5D models. Afterwards, we have found the place, time and shots we need to backspace and put the modelling instead and corrected them, without damaging all the rest of the shots we had. That wasn't difficult, we just needed to make sure that everything is on place in the right second of the sequence! :D

Editing in a new way

Today we had to edit in a new way, because we showed Luke what we have done so far, until the second verse and he gave us advice to out the modelling shots less randomly. We inserted them a lot everywhere, however we need to find a specific beat/place/section in the song where we would every time have just modelling shots separately.
So, as we put them in the very beginning of the song where the was no lyrics, we decided to insert modelling shots in the same beat every time now and again, so that it will make the video more repetitive and intense! Looks much better that way!  Audience will not be confused but enjoy every second of beauty of the girls!

Matt and Luke's feedback

Matt and Luke had a look at what we've done so far and made a huge contribution to our future editing by giving us some advices!

• We have a lot of random shots that look nice overall, however all the video becomes more interesting by the end, because shots cut quicker and therefore attracts the eye and interest. We have to cut the long shots and make video more dynamic!
• It looks better when the shots are "grouped", so when you can hear the base clearly you have to show ECU of the base guitarist playing then her face and a wide shot of her (everything quickly) than it makes it less random and adds the dynamic as well, making it also more vivid! In order to do that we will have to start everything from the very beginning, however the point is very important and it will actually look better that way, so we already started changing the editing!
• Modelling shots are very beautiful and look real, so we have to put more of them in, and when there is no lyrics in the song it is the best place to insert the modelling shots, as it works nicely in couple! 
• Our music video is one of the most beautiful out of all, and will definitely look pretty, as it already looks very good! Matt and Luke are glad to work on it. We just need to make it more interesting and dynamic. This is the kind of video boys would like to show to their friends and girls would like to admire! 

We are very happy to hear such an excellent feedback, it motivated us a lot! And we will do our best to improve our editing skills, and make the video look excellent!:)

Adding modelling shots

We started adding the modelling shots. Firstly, we had to name them all as a lot of them are really long and not relevant staff going on in there, so it will save our time later on, when we will insert them in our  video.

Afterwards, we started inserting them gradually in, however it is very difficult as the rough cut seems to match all the moments, and it is not that easy to decide which parts you don't like in it and can change for the modelling shots. However, modelling makes the video more vivid and beautiful. All the girls are very natural and look free and confident that makes video look even better!

Strengths and Weaknesses of the rough cut

All the shots look nice, and on the right place. Everything is synced perfectly, and appears on time. When the rhythm is very quick we change the shots instantly that add dynamic to the overall image of the video. The band members look incredible, each of them knows what to do, and look like real professionals in the shot, that contributes to the image of video as it makes it look more like an actual music video.
Unfortunately, the modelling shots were not included yet, as we didn't have enough time to do that. The wide shots look very good, however some of the CU and ECU shots do not match with the music, and so we need to work more on them. FinalCutPro is very good and not that complicated program that provides us with all we need. We blade any shot we want whenever we want, with no harm, moving them, syncing and inserting them we it is needed. So, we will manage to do clear up all the mistakes we have this week!

Our rough cut is extremely rough, as it lacks a lot, however still those who have seen it all like it, and the song matches the picture perfectly, so we are looking forward to make it a masterpiece soon!

Continuing to edit

We are running out of time, however the job has to be done perfectly! It is very difficult to sync all the bits of the song together, as we have 3 different parts of the video to edit:

1. Full make up on
2. Lipstick on
3. No make up on

The reason for that is our main concept and idea of the video, we want to give to the audience! So, we filmed all the parts separately with the different tracks of our song, that we previously cut into pieces and therefore we need to sync the beats for the song separately for each part.

That is very difficult as the song is very dynamic and repetitive, the beat is very clearly heard all the time, and happens very often therefore shots has to be changed on it.

It is also very difficult to sync the shots of Anastasia as she cannot actually play the drums, and sometimes didn't do that with the rhythm, and beside the fact the shots of her are synced it is not always the case that she is playing the right way. So, we needed to find pretty parts of her playing separately and then insert them into the footage. 

Editing in process!

Started the editing of the band shots. We are not using the modelling shots yet, as in the rough cut we don't need them, and we don't have enough time to do that as well. It is a time-consuming process to find all the beats we need, mark them and decided what exactly we would like to see and for how long. The video is going to look very good, as girls are beautiful and this is a very big pleasure to edit it, as all the shots are brilliant, we just need to sort them out and "put in the right places" on the music and lyrics!:)

Editing

On Tuesday we started lip synching all of the full makeup section this took us a long time as it is a very tedious process and if it isn't perfect then the whole music video is not going to look good.  However it was very nice to do this as we realised just how amazing all of our shot are and the music video is definitely going to look incredible!!!