Editing 2: Editing the clips session

To be able to make the band look like they were actually playing the instruments we had to sync the track with their playing. When we came to do this we realised we hadn't made a clear enough play back for us to be able to link the shots and the track. However, we managed to find a section where the singing began and, because this part was noticeable enough, we were able to link it and sync all the different shots and place them on to the time line. This is an example of a time line on Adobe Premiere Pro:

What we did was use the 'marker' tool and show clearly where that point came up on the track and then where we heard it in the shot, then we matched those points together and dragged the shot out so that we had the shots from the beginning on the time line and we had a wide variety of shots to chose from when it came to actually creating the sequence. Before syncing all the shots we had to duplicate the previous timeline so that we always have a copy of previous work in case something goes majorly wrong.

We had to crop a few of the shots due to the microphone being in the shot which was slight pain as they were pretty good shots. Rashad obviously didn't realise but it doesn't matter, we still had plenty left of the shot. We also had to crop a few of the shots which had talking in it, mainly at the beginning and sounds of foot steps behind the camera but as I said this wasn't as much of a problem because we still had plenty of other good shots. Sometimes when we cropped the shots, they sat well with the other shots without any intentions and we kept them which was quite lucky, as we liked the way they flowed.

Some of the musicians were occasionally playing the instruments not In time with the music or playing the wrong bit, for example Callum hitting the symbol on the drum kit instead of one of the toms. Because of this we had to separately sync these sections and it was a little more challenging as we had to sync from another section of the shot. We would have to listen out for when the symbol is meant to be hit and then mark it, then watch the shot of Callum very slowly and watch when he hits the symbol, then mark it. Then we had to match these markers together. The reason it wasn't as straight forward was due to the fact we actually had to match when he hits the symbol and it wasn't always as straight forward as it sounds because he was moving so quickly. We had to do it a couple of times with Alfie as well as he sometimes strummed out of time. The guitar syncing was probably the hardest because the different chords and notes in the track are played really fast and hard to pin down a specific chord.

Once tiding the shots and their composition, we realised our piece was beginning to take shape and was working very well. The editing process is very stressful however enjoyable at the same time!