D.B: 28th November Lesson Update

Despite not having a lesson today I managed to go up to Tech during 1st Period, Lunch and afterschool so that we could meet our group's deadline for getting the rough cut done.

We were successful in meeting this deadline and although we are aware of many changes that are needed, we are on track to finishing the video by next Friday.

I cut together the ending of the track where Isaac is back on the rooftop. We wanted to repeat some shots from the beginning to create a recognition of how cyclical his emotions are so I copy and pasted the shot of the close up silhouette of his hand. I placed another shot after this one followed by the reveal shot of his hand showing the bracelet on his wrist. By juxtaposing the beginning shot of his hand with the reveal shot of the bracelet it links the 2 narratives of London and the rooftop.

The ending shot of the track is absolutely perfect and we will definitely keep it in. I copy and pasted the back tracking shot of Isaac facing away from the camera and compressed the time so that it fit with the fading out of the track. I then added a fade to black effect and increased the time it faded out so that as the track slowly faded out the clip slowly tracked away from Isaac and faded out also.

I cut the clips of the dancers and placed them on video 2 of the visual timeline above the clip of the track of Isaac picking up the bracelet. I decreased the opacity of the shot so that the clip underneath would show through. The cutting rate of the dancers is very fast so that the audience isn't completely sure of what they are seeing. This was necessary to blend in the full clip of the dancers because otherwise it seems out of place and like a mistake.

I used a similar technique earlier on in the video as well because whilst watching the video our narrative wasn't very clear and the 2 scenes didn't seem to connect. Overlaying seems to be working to link them together because now they seem present in their effect with each other.


I placed the dancer shots that Laurel edited together in the blank space of the timeline during the conceptual part of the track. Some of the shots needed to be trimmed to fit the space and because the track slowed down at the end of the conceptual part I time stretched the last clip to be slow motion. We don't want this part to just be the dancers but we have not edited the green-screen kaleidoscope shots yet so we placed them here in order to finish the rough cut.]

There were a few clips, for example the one where the dancers disappear from Isaac and jump cut at an increasing cutting rate, that I had to drag and drop so that they were more in time with the music.

Before exporting the rough-cut we rendered the video and watched it through to look for any last minute changes or accidental placing of discarded clips. I moved the workbar area to the end of the track and then exported the clip to MPEG with a resolution of ... We will put the exported clip onto YouTube and the blog next week.