Final Cut Pro X: more issues with synching

After adding a cross dissolve on to a single shot the beginning and end of the dissolve connects 3 shots together in a smoother transition. However, this editing technique appears to link all the shots together and it is now very difficult to move each shot independent of each other.

The shot below of our star singing into camera then became out of sync with the music track.
This was quite frustrating as we are aware that the synching process takes a long time. I had to move the clip above the the main time line of shots and then use markers to mark the point that Julian started to sing on the shot and the point in time where Ed Sheeran starts singing on the original track. This was made even more difficult due to the fact that we had already disabled the audio from the film clip. I eventually marked the point of singing and then proceeded to perfectly match up the two markers. Once completed, it was then a challenge to move the shot of  Julian into the main time line without disrupting other clips and the transitions.

Research: digipak, back cover.

Planning: The conventions of a digipk on thinglink.

First draft of logos for production company.

Final Cut Pro X: adding transitions - problems with synching

After adding this blur transition in between the shot of Sophie's eyes and the trees we found that the lip synching of Julian became out of sync with the vocals on the track.

Originally the markers that we had added onto the original track and the film were perfectly matched on the time line. However, adding the transition appeared to move the video of Julian singing further on in the time line which then meant that his lip synching was not in time with the original track. This is extremely frustrating as it takes an extremely long time to perfectly sync these up on the time line.

Things to ask the Editor from The Blueprint Film Foundation.

We decided to take this shot of a CCTV clock and add it on to the shot of Sophie looking upwards in order to connote that she is being watched and monitored. We will then add a shot of Sophie's phone with the text message 'Where are you?! I've been calling all night?!' We think that this combination of shots will make the narrative clearer as Julian's character Ben's slighting controlling nature pushes Sophie to find love with someone else. Before, the reason that Sophie (Abby) was unfaithful to Ben was not clear.

An Editor from The Blueprint Film Foundation is coming in on the 29th of October and therefore Rhiann and I will take this opportunity to ask him how to fade the background of the clock in the left corner of the shot into the background of the main shot (Abby rolling her eyes).






His ideas:

Group post: PANIC in editing

As my partner Rhiann was editing the music video, she layered two clips one on top of another and then preceded to disable one clip to watch the original to understand which parts to blade off and use the other clip in them spaces...

BUT

the macs are very old so she must have as I clicked to fast as the macs original reaction was to slow, Therefore she clicked another option by accident, and all the clips disappeared and only the clip Rhiann went to disable was there and it was placed over the song.

I felt extremely bad when she told me she thought ALL our hard work had gone, but thank fully the teacher was able to simply press the reel and it was all there.

This experience showed us that things can go wrong with technology that are beyond our control. 

Group post: Using Final Cut Pro X

Before posting my first rough cut on youtube, I had only used the blade tool and slight use of over cranking and under cranking. 

After this first rough cut, I have been trying out new editing techniques, cross dissolve I feel confident with now, however some newer tests is the use of "flash" and "lens flare".

I used flash before the artist begins to start reminiscing on the memories. 

And used lens flare as I panned around the loved up couple in the park and it works very well with the natural lighting. 

I also used the effect of "gaussian" which I'm not even sure what it means, but after tying it out, I think its a good way to introduce the new boy in the music video and "Abbie's" affair.

Feedback: One male and one female, 17 years of age.

Both agreed that we should keep the sequence of shots at the end of the music video to form the montage. However, it was suggested that we remove some of the slow motion shots, especially the one where Sophie (playing Abby) roles her eyes.

Rough cut 1

Flickr - Target Audience Research of new photos

We have I have added the photos on to the vale media group to get comments from my peers and teachers. 

I have added descriptions on to each photo of what they would be used for.

Our photos that we took on the first scheduled shoot for the ancillary task became blurred, because we had
unfortunately used the camera on the wrong setting. Above are the new photos that we have taken which are
considerably better in quality.

Planning: Digipak photos on Flikr

We hope to receive constructive criticisms on these photos from young people in our target audience (16-21) by using Flikr as a platform to get the images seen. 

Research: Target audience questions