Editing

Editing 

1. We firstly animated the images we created and imported them into Adobe
Premier Pro  

2. we began to start editing the clips length and placing then in a basic order. We tried
to get the animation to reflect the songs pace and instrumental parts.

3. At this stage we felt we overused some of the clips and so began to create
a more equal ratio between the singer and guitarists

4. We then added some cutaway, this cutaway was a set of speakers pulsating. We felt
 it was important to add variety and to help break up the music video.

5. At this stage after animating the images of the band members in Adobe Flash
we began to structure the clips. We looked at adding some ideas that we
initially had e.g. "scan/animate souls.

6. After Zak drew the drummer and animated it we began to try and fit it in
to the music video and also continued to try and fill in the gabs with different
animations and different types of shots e.g. mid, long, close up etc.

7. Zak and i began to try and come up with an opening sequence. We tried
experimenting with the use of motion in some of the clips.

8. Zak began on looking into the ending sequence, it involves the female
guitarist strumming the last of the notes of the song.

9. At this stage we chose to add more of the female guitarist, this was
difficult as with the framing of the picture she could only be shown from
the right side.

10. At this stage we decided upon using a variety of shots, and
began to zoom in on the audience and other characters. This was
useful as we only used a small variety of animations and allowed us
to re-use shots. 

11. We decided that it would look more appealing if the ending sequence
cut to black. This follows the motif through out of leaving blank
 spaces between some clips in order to give a quick, clean effect that
transitions such as 'dip to black' wouldn't be able to give. 

12-a. At this stage we began adding video transitions, we chose to use a small
range consisting of dips to black and white.

12-b. We added transitions by first selecting the transition we wanted to use
and in this case 'dip to black', then proceeded to click and drag the effect on
to the desired clip.

13. At this stage Zak added the titles, this is of the real bands name the 'Foo Fighters'
which produced the song 'The Pretender'. By using the songs original band name
 we hoped to use there influence of being rock/alternative rock genre artists in order
to help successfully promote the song.

14. I created a side ways shot of the lead singer and after animation added a green
background in order to achieve a later process of ultra/luma key'ing them.
(ultra/luma key'ing gives the user the opportunity to replace a colour i.e. the
band members backgrounds, so that a background can be placed behind it.
This allowed us at a post production stage to add in the previously drawn
backgrounds to the clips.)

* note - we later chose not to use this clip due to the difficulties we had in ultra/luma keying*

15. We then, after peer assessment began to shorten some of the clips down to reflect the
pace of the song.

16. I created another image of the guitarist, i my artistic skill improved since
i first drew the original image of the male guitarist it was difficult to replicate it.
After becoming more foamier with Sai (an drawing computer programme) i was able
to use the vector/line tool and create a more defined and better quality image.

After animating it me and Zak used this more proportionately then the other animation. 

17. We began to think about the use of a group/band shot.  

18.   After discussing this i chose to draw a group shot of the band members.

As it was difficult to replicate the band members as since i initially drawn them
my artistic skill had improved meaning i was unable to produce the same results. So i
decided to instead of drawing the characters over again i would reuse the pictures i had
 already drawn and change there stance and position in order to keep its brand identity.

When it came to drawing the female guitarist that Zak had drawn it was difficult to replicate
his style. So i decided to trace the image by using the line tools. I did however alter some
of the aspects as Zak had not drawn the female guitarist from the knees down so i tried to
produce a full body image.

19. At this stage i began to try and better lip sink the singers mouth to the pace
of the lyrics by shortening, lengthening and changeling the speed. This
 wasn't difficult as the  animation was able to lip sync easily with most songs.

20. Both me and Zak drew and animated our own audience to be used as cutaway.

21. At this stage we felt that the drummer wasn't very heavily present so began too add more
of this clip. We focused on it more when there a greater presence of drumming within the song 

22. After tracing and colouring come of the images needed to create the group shot
i tried to position them by moving them and scaling them down in order to create
perspective. I decided not to use the drummer as i felt there was no room for him to
be placed. 

24. Since the drummer could not fit into the group shot we decided to add more
shots of the drummer as well as close ups on the banging of symbols and slight
zooms. We focused the drummer mainly at instrumental parts where the drumming
was more noticeable.

25. At this stage we began to re-do the introdcution and add a differnce sequnce
of shot types of the malw guitarist.

26a. We then began to experiment with the luma key before gonig into post production

26b. By clicking and dragging the effect ont the desired we were able to remove the background colour
being blue and replace it with backgrounds that me and Zak had previoulsy made

After these stages we went into post production where insted of luma keying we used the Ultra Key which was a much simpler and easier tool to use. We had to drag the ultra key onto all of the desired clips, this took about 3/4 hours and was very repetative and unenjoyable however nessisary inorder to add background images and improve the quality of the piece as a whole.