Editing Session - Gym Scene

Today on the 4th of January we had a double media lesson meaning we could hopefully edit the Gym scene as well as part of our performance. Firstly we had to start editing the Gym scene as well as discuss what footage to use in the music video as we had a range of footage of the main character exercising on different machines. We all decided to use only 4 of the machines as some of the shots that we took on others were low quality in terms of lighting so we decided to get rid of that footage giving us the sufficient amount of footage for the gym scene. I felt this was the best idea as we had too much footage and if we included all of it the gym scene would have dragged on a bit meaning the audience would lose focus and not be as engaged as we would have liked. First of all we had to align each part of the footage to where we thought was most appropriate. We decided that it could be linked with the lyrics i.e. when the lead singer sings laid back the main character will be leaning backwards on the rowing machine. This was a clever edit as the audience would see this and also be aware of it consciously. We decided that we would quicken the pace of each of the shots a little so they don’t last as long allowing us to perform quick sharp edits creating a rhythmic basis. I felt that this was a good idea if we wanted to keep to carol Vernallis' theory. We had now finished editing our Gym scene which took us an hours long lesson but as we had a double lesson we would be moving onto our next set of footage being the performance in the next lesson. Overall a successful day of editing as we have now made a lot of progress in terms of editing our music video.