Editing Process

These photos are screenshots from our first day of editing as a full group. We have captured the images of our footage being tested and displayed on our timeline, knowing that our group work well when it comes to editing, we have no worries about sticking to the schedule, knowing that our video will be 100% completed in a week or two. So far we have found the editing process quite easy to follow and are remembering the skills we used last year when completing our opening sequences.

Group Meeting - Footage Problem

After uploading our footage, we realised the footage couldn't be used as there was little use of tripod so the movement was shaky or the camera was held upside down in places. In order to fix this, we cannot rotate our shots because of a cropping/sizing issue, and so must refilm a lot of our footage. We also came to the conclusion that there should be only one female lead vocalist, and due to Josie's past experience with drama,media and music that it should be her who is the main vocalist.

The issue with our filming! 

The reason we decided to go with just one lead vocalist is because the song only consists of one female voice, so it makes sense for there to be just one main female character. 

Group Meeting - Footage upload

In today's lesson we uploaded all our current shots, ready to edit the singing footage. The narrative parts will hopefully be filmed in a few days time.

We have collected various footage from all sorts of locations, such as Josie's house, the school gardens, the school practice choir room and a local park. All these locations we have stills of as well, which will be uploaded separately.

After spending time together thinking clearly, using our imaginations and developing ideas for our locations, we have managed to import quite a varied amount of footage to iMovie.

 This footage is not about the narrative, that is yet to be filmed (thursday is the plan).  It is just the singing parts, performed by Josie and Olivia. The narrative filming will star Daniel Dickson, in a love triangle with a plot twist, in order to break away from any boundaries and stereotypes caused by doing a Taylor Swift song normally with the same boy meets girl obvious storyline.

After todays meeting I am confident that we will be able to film all the footage and edit within plently of time before the deadline in February.

Group Meeting - Fashion inspiration

Due to our idea change, we also have to change the celebrities who inspire our clothing style. as our group know, Taylor Swift has her own 'america's sweetheart' style, and she is an iconic artist, so we have decided to break the stereotype and give our main performer an edgier wardrobe. As the song we have chosen is not as popular as some of Taylor Swift's other songs, we can easily break this stereotype.

So our main fashion inspirations include: Miley Cyrus, Anna Kendrick and Demi Lovato. Our group feels as though these three celebrities are each unique and individual and have their own styles, which we can adapt into our music video. We feel that these celebrities are not afraid to be themselves, which is something all people should aspire to be like, and we hope to portray this is our strong narrative music video.

I think that the meeting we has today was very successful as we came up with a good idea to break away from the 'America's sweetheart' image and go for a more edgier look. We will make sure that in our video the main character will be wearing loathing such as jeans, edgy shoes and more rock-like t-shirts. Hopefully this will work when filming the footage for the video.