Editing

The editing process was remarkably simple as, having viewed all the performances; we knew which elements of the masses of footage held the shots we wanted. Learning from last year, we had already marked all the tape and sorted our material as we uploaded it for easy access to what we wanted.

Syncing the footage was slightly trickier, especially with the lead singers as upon filming they did all fumbled some of the words sometimes. This meant that some of the shots we had in mind had to be replaced as the song would not have synced to the footage if we used it. However, this was a difficulty easily overcome as we had shot so much footage (roughly eight takes per band and a lot of narrative).

We found that the cut scene’s volume was poor as the camera was a distance away and thus contemplated dubbing the audio. However, after discovering that the audio could be enhanced, we did this and found that people preferred it when the audio dipped somewhat as it made it enhanced the idea of everyone being distracted. This also made the swearing censorship less obvious which, as our target audience would not mind swearing and we were primarily doing this to conform to PG regulations by the BBFC, less obvious and thus less distracting.

During editing we were aware of the expectations an audience for this video required. As we had established a narrative we tried to conform to the conventions surrounding how much and how the focus is divided between the narrative and performance elements of the video. This was also depentdent on the kinds of shots we got; if there was a peice of perfromance that we really wanted to include but had story boarded for a narrative shot or even a different shot, then we adjusted the storyboard and peice. Although we did this we did still try to keep to roughly the same ratio of performance and narrative that would be expected in a music video and that showed the different stories that we wanted. Although learning in the first year that the story line can be manipulated in post production, we didn 't do that this year as we wanted to stick to the original concepts of Todorov's Narrative theory. However we did find that through editing we changed the realtionship between the two characters from being quite ambiguous (as seen in the story board) to a strong friendship (as we chose to incorporate the DVD box of 'Spaced' which has the connotations of DVD friends would watch rather than a realtionship.