Final video

           Unfortunately there seemed to be issues with copyright of the audio and youtube blocked the audio from our video and so I have imported the video above in a lower quality. 

           We were all very happy with the video and found this short project really helpful in improving filming and editing techniques. However, some shots are quite slow due to the slow nature of the song and I think this makes the story less interesting. We did have to cut the song because it was quite repetitive lyrically and also relatively long but I don't think it is that noticeable which adds to the professionalism of the video.  

Editing

           Overall, the editing process was relatively smooth and took a lot less time than first expected, this was helped along by the fact we had previously decided on straight/ continuity editing. We managed to create a final product which we were all happy with and which we felt portrayed the correct themes and really created a sense of atmosphere. It was refreshing finally putting all of the shots together in some sort of order even though we did differ from the storyboard quite drastically.  

           The most helpful tool when editing the music video as opposed to editing other forms of video was the marker tool, we were able to highlight hit points of the song and make sure cuts were put in the correct places. One of the most frequently used tools in final cut was the colour mixer enabling us to change shots into black and white (in our piece showing shots in the past). there were issues with the format of some shots when trying to import them into final cut and we did have to convert the ones we wanted to use. These difficulties were continued when trying to export the whole film and we ended up realising that it wasn't the correct format to be uploaded to youtube. 

          However, after a few minor issues we were able to piece together our footage nicely to make a consistent video.

Filming

           One of the main complications during term time with a project like this is trying to get all members of the group together for something as vital as filming. As we only had two characters in the video (one of them being myself) the actors were not really a difficulty and we soon realised that having everyone in the group present was not really a necessity and wasn't very realistic. However, we did make sure all members of the group were well informed regarding what was being filmed at which time (helped by the shooting schedule) and this allowed everyone to be up to date with what still needed to be done. 
           We managed to get the majority of the filming done over two weeks which allowed us plenty of time for editing. We were really quite efficient when filming making sure we didn't have to revisit locations more than once however this did add more confusion having to film things out of order. We had some other issues with strong winds when trying to create smooth pans, this was also not helped by a poor quality moving image tripod. 
          Other than this there were very few big issues and I think we were overall very successful, this was partly due to following the tip of shooting far more than we actually needed which allowed us to make the editing process a lot smoother.