We had now finished the production of our music video and we we had completed it before the deadline. We have to now think of ideas of how to begin our CD cover and magazine advert.

Today we completed our music video. We did this by finishing g the last two scenes of. We had to stay in at lunch and after college time to complete the music video as the deadline was looming the next day.

At the beginning we had two scenes left to complete. As a group we agreed to end the song we would leave Osman alone as there had been ideas to reunite him with someone to show that he is not alone, however we decided not to do this and leave the audience sympathising for Osman at the end of the music video. The journey towards the end of the song was Osman travelling up the escalators and into the food court. To correspond with the beat of the song we increased the tempo of the footage by x100.

Throughout the music video, Osman keeps looking at his watch as if he is waiting for someone we do this to fool the audience as at the end they expect Osman to be reunited with his friends however at the end of the music video we gradually decrease the speed of the footage on purpose so at the end of the video Osman fades out in slow motion.

We also added text telling the audience the name of the artist and song. We added this because it was typical of a music video to display this feature.

The next scene was Osman In Kro bar, looking at his watch as if he were waiting for someone, however top create an effect we placed him in front of the window, therfor we could watch the people walking past. We then increased the speed of the people walking behind Osman as it looked like the whole world was passing him by.

We were coming to the end of the music video. The three last scenes that we wanted to complete were Osman in the bus, Osman in Kro bar and then the food court in Manchester shopping centre. The next scene was the on the bus. Osman wore white glasses for a more techno effect. The glasses that he wore are the same glasses that Kanye West wore in one of his music video. This added to the effect of the contrasting mis en sen.On the bus, we increased the pace of the footage by x200. This helped tell the time of the journey and also the theme of our video Osman being alone throughout the whole of the day. It also corresponded to the tempo of the song as it is still quite fast and upbeat.

We also added a glow effect as when we took the footage the weather looked gloomy and we could see this in the window of the bus so we used a glow effect to fade away the look of negative weather.

The next scene was very important as it was Osman lip singing, we had filmed this a couple of days ago and had only got around to logging and capturing this now. We had to match the precise lip movements of Osmans to the lyrics of the song. We, as a group found this very difficult as looking back at the footage,sometimes the green screen was not put properly and corners of the classroom appeared in the camera angle,however When we asked for help, our teacher told us that we could change the background to whatever we wanted. Although as a group we decided that we would stick with the black and white effect as they were two very contrasting colours and we could use different effects to make Osman look lonely and confused. We used a chomer key to change the background to black, then we used a light ray effect and cross dissolve to smooth the transitions between the lyrics and the beat of the song.

At this stage, we were half way through our music video, however we still had alot to get through. Our next scene to complete was of Osman in theatre looking confused. When one of our teachers looked at the rough cut in our blog, he was very pleased as he thought that with good editing and effects, it would look very effective.

To start with, we applied individual cuts of footage to the timeline as we did not want one continuous shot. When we did this,we realised that we wouldn't have enough footage as the footage that we wanted was 3 seconds longer then the one that we had as we wanted to speed up the pace of Osman moving around erratically. We tried many ways of lengthening the other scenes in our timeline, however the scenes then did not correspond to the lyrics and it was confusing for the audience to watch. We then realised that the background of our footage is black, as we blacked out the college theatre and put a spotlight on Osman to make it more effectinve.Also the mis en scene was contasting to the background as the costume was white:watch,glasses,and t-shirt.

This meant that if we increased the pace of the footage to match the beat of the song that we could do individual cuts and leave seconds blank on the timeline, as the background of the theatre is black and also if you leave the timeline blank then a black screen appears. This meant we could cut to an individual cut to match the beat of the song. Near the end of the lesson,we managed to complete this and fit it the timeline accordingly. However, the screen when watching,looked very dull. So we then added a flashing light to the timeline to heighten the contrsting effect of the colours used;black and white.

The next scene we had to edit and attach to the timeline when the tempo increases and the pace of the beat becomes the most important part of our music video. To begin with we needed to look at our bin and see how much footage we had of Osman in the theatre changing seats. We then marked in and out the footage we needed and then applied it to our timeline. We then decided that we would edit it according to the beat for example; 1 beat- change seats,2 beat-change seat,3 beat-change seat.

We continued to this as the change of seats were very affective as it showed the time passing.

After we had put all the scenes togeather, it was still quite slow and dull.We then went into the effects and speeded the time up by 200. We also sampled many effects for example;earthquake,distort,ripple etc.However, these did not work, we then used a dazzle effect which we had to key frame so the dazzle would come on the screen each time before Osman changed seats.

Still editing. Today we continued editing. The next scence in which we had to edit was the feet walking throught the door. We had synchronise this scence to attatch to the exact lyrics on the music video, however, there was too much of a big gap between the previous scene and the lyrics so we decided to leave that 10 second slot for Osman to lip sing in. We then continued, the added the footage to the timeline, however, it looked boring so we then decided to speed the pace of it by 200, this helped the idea of "many people walked through the door". We also added a glow effect.This image shows a low angle of people walking through the door. The image also shows shadows of the shoes, this shows you the pace as we increased it.

Only 2 and a half weeks left till our media production deadline and we still had alot of editing to do.We started the day of by having a group meeting, as we needed to discuss exactly what needed to be done to fill our timeline. We managed to discuss where the footage was going to placed on the timeline. This helped us focus on what needed to be done.

Back to the editing, as we had already began our timeline,we decided that we would place the footage in the timeline in chronological order of Osmans day. Our next piece of footage which needed to be edited was the scene in the food court within Manchester city center. We applying this scene we had to shorten it, as we did not need all of it. We also wanted a variation of shots within our music video, so we marked in and marked out the zoom in of Osmans face opening and reading the newpaper by himself drinking a cup of coffee. We added these neccessaties(newpaper and coffee cup) as it made it look realistic.
When we applyed this to our timeline, the colour of this scene was very dark and did not flow correctly with our previous scene. We then went into effects and tryed to find a suitable effect that would allow the scene to become lighter. In the end we used a simple colour corrector as it lightened our scene , also, it was the only effect that we could use to make it look as though we had filmed it that way ourselves.

Before the colour corrector.

After the colour corrector.

Still Editing

At the beginning of the lesson, we looked at our bin and agreed as a group even though we had alot of rough cuts and edits, we still did not have enough to go along with, which made us agree that we needed to film some more footage to add to our music video as the music track that we are using is fast paced therefore we will be using fast edits and also speeding up the pace of different shots when the beat of the song kicks in. We then decided that we would film Osman lip singing, as we did not have enough variation of that. However, we could not do this in the lesson as we were to busy doing editing.

Editing

Today we began editing. When we started this process, it took a while to get back the skills of editing and the effects, however we we found our way and also found that we could speed up the pace of the footage for example; changing the pace from normal to x300. When we began editing, we realised something that we thought at the start would not be an issue, we realised that our shot list would have to be altered and we would have to change some of the scences as they turned out not as brilliant as we imagined it would have.
Also when we began editing, we realised that in various scences, Osman was looking in the camera, which did not look apropriate, we then have to edit this and we used the marking points to do this. We found it hard to mark in and mark out the exact moments to correspond with the previous and next scene. We also then added transitions to make the pace and linking of the scenes more smoother.
By the end of the day we had began first 15 seconds of the music video, this gave us a massive shock and and made us realise that we needed to edit faster to make our deadline. This then made us make arrangements to stay after college and inbetween free college time.
The 15 seconds that we had compleded was Osman at his house in his bed looking at his watch, and then sitting up in his bed, with a pan of the room. We then added a cross dissolve effect to each edit as the scenes were jumping and it did not look like a music video.
To conclude, by the end of the day we were shocked that we still had so much editing to do in so little time.