Editing Updates - A Couple of Problems

So as I have stated in recent blogs, I’ve been busy working away at the edit, well of the edit of what has been done so far. Right now I’ve edited all I can and there are a few issues that have sprung up. I’ve just realised that a lot of the footage that we shot as the end, the first footage me and Chloe ever shot for this project, will have to be scrapped from the looks of things as a lot of it is basically unusable, now by that I don’t mean that it’s bad or looks terrible, far from it really as it does look pretty good. No the problem is that, while editing it all together, I’ve been using the story board as a brief template for the timing order, as at the moment I don’t have the track to place over it. When I created the story board, I continuously listened and played back the track over and over, and used this to map out a sort of time frame for each image, so basically all the images time equalled the full song, which is why I have been using to work out how long the each scene should be from the footage we shot and where to place the band parts appropriate to how the song plays out, so key vocal parts which I had mapped out for in the story board still occur in the video etc. Now of course as you know I had to change my initial setting of the music video which I had drawn onto the story board, instead of it being set in a woodland area, it changes to a combination of suburban area and some woodland, which made it a lot easier to film. Unfortunately I didn’t fully take in to consideration time frame when filming and only used the story board for certain parts of the filming, so I’ve ended up with too much footage of the chase, so the final few scenes are ultimately going to have to be cut and changes, which isn’t a problem as the video should still make sense. The song itself is roughly 3 minutes 16 seconds long and right now I’ve edited all the footage up to 2minutes 44 seconds, which leaves which only leaves around 32 seconds of footage left to film the ending, much isn’t much. I’ve already gone back through and cut and shortened all I can out of what we have so far, so I’m only left with this short space time. Luckily I’ve got the Christmas holidays coming up soon to have some time off to plan and write a miniature storyboard for the ending and try and work out how me and Chloe can finish this video. In the meantime by the end of this week I’m going to upload what we have done so far and show you how the video has been coming along. Also in the holidays a lot of work is going to be going into arranging the filming of the band scenes for when we get back and during the holidays both me and Chloe are going to be working on the other aspects of the project, mainly the print projects, such as the album cover, single cover, magazine, adverts etc. So very busy times a head.