More editing (Nearly completed)

Today in our double lesson, we worked in a team trying to get the lip syncing to perfection. Bit by bit we watched the same parts over and over again to try and get the artist to be more believable to the audience. If the lip syncing, which is a significantly important part is not done to an accurate level then the audience is likely to disengage with the artist which is not what we want. What we want, is for the viewer to 'sing-a-long' and merge with the artist.

After the lesson, mariam went to media and tried to sync up the music video for some time. Later on, after mariam left I came back to see how much more needed to be done. And i noticed that the syncing had improved very dramatically, and that there were only one or two spots which needed to be changed.

So i took a few hours plugging my headphone into the mac to get rid of background noise and started trimming the start/end of several clips on the Imovie program. I found for alot of the footage, where it was hard to sync that the problem was that the artist had sung the lyrics slightly differently to the actual song.

The main solution was to split the clip so it was separated from the footage which was synced and to slow down specific parts that weren't so that the audience believe that the artist is actually singing the lyrics. It was important however when slowing down the clip to be precise and not slow it down too much or else, the timing was not right.

Then if this didn't do the trick, trimming the start and end of the next clip was a good idea or go redrag a longer version of the same clip (some edited footage were too short), so that the length can be increased to go with the beat.

There were two main parts, where this was particularly difficult near the end of the song (part where Ellana Rose is by the tree and singing continually onto the spotlight scene). Because it needs to continually engage the audience, with interest. However after an hour or two, it finally worked. I tried to listen to the dramatic cymbal beat in the song carefully and sync the spotlight scene to it, so that this would have more dramatic effect. It finally worked.

It was possible to fix other minor syncing errors too using this slowing down and trimming method. Other alternatives used, include changing the duration of the clip.

Finally i changed the contrast of the swimming pool part because i thought that it was a bit too dark, as when the music video is burnt on a CD/DVD the quality could be effected and the very details and ripples in the water may not show as well as it should.

-Myung-