Editing Diary- 2nd Cut

Wall Of Glass- 2nd Cut (all performance) from Tom Cornock on Vimeo.

With all of our footage filmed, our attention has swiftly turned to the editing process of the video. We have already created the first cut which simply includes long cuts from our performance footage to get an idea of how easily matching the videos to the song are and what it generally looked like. In today's double period, we decided to advance our original cut further by splitting up the long clips and introducing a variety of shots. This was important because we need to include as many shots as possible to follow the tempo of the song. This lesson went well because we were both suggesting ideas and places for new clips to go and they could be easily inserted without ruining the lip syncing by simply putting the clip on top of the original timeline. This works because the video highest on the timeline takes priority and thus made the editing process much easier. Below is a screenshot of how this works and an updated version of our video and I believe that it is starting to come together and will look professional with the footage that we filmed yesterday incorporated. Our next focus is sorting out the first section of the video where we are quickly cross-cutting between two long takes, Ryan walking into the studio and Tom walking towards the water edge. This is crucial in the success of our video because it takes place for a long part of the song, it needs to be cut on the beat and it needs to be engaging and hook the viewer. Therefore, editing this to a high standard may take a couple of lessons to get right.