We’re almost there. Here is the first edit of our music video ‘Secrets’ by State Champs. Unfortunately the sound was set too high of Final Cut Pro hence the distortion, this will be fixed for the final cut. A major change that will be made is the filters on each shot, narrative will have a red hazy filter whilst the band shots will have a steel blue filter to clearly distinguish the difference. Must watch in 1080p.
We need to make some tweaks, mainly to match up the lip syncing as accurately as possible, we also need to make the cuts between shots smoother and more subtle, another thing that we can improve on is trying to crop out some of the unwanted background at the edge of the screen such as the radiators and parts of curtain to make it look more professional.
We decided to change the band members, this was because we felt our drummer wasn’t enthusiastic enough and we decided to use Fraser instead as he showed more of the characteristics that were needed for our genre. Another alteration we made was using less narrative than planned, this was decided before we started filming, as we felt we could cover the narrative in much less time and therefore use more time to show lip and band syncing as well as the band shots which are more related to pop punk . We also changed our location from the ogstoun theatre to the ATC huts as we felt the ATC huts suited our genre more as it gave more of a ‘garage’ feel.
Elinor Brownlow 