Final Cut Pro: Editing Shots

Filming Day

Yesterday was our filming day and to be honest we believe it went really well. Originally we wanted to be at the location for 16:30 to give us sufficient time to set up and finish filming before Derry had to go to bed. However we didn’t actually get there until 18:30 as we had to pick up members of the band and there was a problem fitting all of the equipment into one car, therefore we had to get another car to help carry the equipment. Once everything was set up the location actually looked quite professional, with the stand light focusing on the two main members of the band (Derry and Greg) and the drummer (Harry) slightly in the shadows.

Loaded car

Setting up

Band Shot

We underestimated the time it would take us to film each individual shot that we needed as at times the band members where messing around and not fully concentrating. However once everyone started concentrating and engaging with the video it was easier to get the shots we wanted. We took regular breaks during filming to ensure that everybody stayed concentrated throughout the process. We achieved a variety of shots such as close ups, mid shots, long shots and different angled shots. Towards the end when we were finishing getting the final shots the camera ran out of battery and we didn’t have the charger, this could be quite detrimental to our video and therefore we will most probably go back to the location in order to get the finishing shots we need. However it was a very enjoyable, successful day and we are pleased with the majority of the shots we captured. If another filming day is required we will update the blog with the new date etc. 

Shots

This is an over-shoulder shot from the video Frank Ocean – Lost where he is walking down the street, we believe this is a unique shot we could consider using, even though it is short the mise en scene shown in front of him can be effective. We can consider different aspects to put in front of him to relate to the genre/ song of the band in our narrative aspects of the video.

This is a classic close up shot, which we are most likely going to use. It follows the conventions of a lot of indie/alternative videos, Friendly Fires use this shot throughout the video ‘Kiss Of Life’. It is an easy way for us to demonstrate lip-syncing which will need to be involved during the video, especially at important parts in the vocals.

Foals video ‘Olympic Airways’ shows classic conventions of a close up focus shot on guitar strips being played. This is a convention that we are both content on using because it is simplistic but still fits well with the style of the video we chose to create.

This is another shot from the same Foals video. We like this shot because it involves the performance element that we out using in our video. We want a similar set up for when we start filming our own video; this includes guitarists and a drummer. We also like the mise en scene in the video; a basic performance video can be quite boring if the mise en scene is carefully thought through, this is why woodlands work well with the props used because it is the complete opposite of the instruments, peaceful. It will be a struggle for us to use this kind of mise en scene because we wont be able to access such woodlands with all the instruments we need, however we will try to create scenery which is similar or can be relevant to our video/lyrics/song.

This is a shot from Bombay Bicycle Club – Shuffle. It is a simplistic mid shot focusing on the vocals of singer. However with the vocals it always allows the audience to have attention drawn to the guitar he is playing and also the clothing he is wearing, in this case a long relatively big shirt with sleeves rolled up about 5 inches. This is a shot we are taking into consideration to using in our performance element of the video.

This shot is from King Krule – Easy Easy. The mise en scene is presumably at a train station, looking similar to one we live by. Therefore we believe we could use something similar to this in our video, the shot is a mid/long shot, showing elements of the mise en scene and also clothing to suit are type of genre(not including the draw string bag).