Assignment One; Task Five - Understand the Techniques of Music Videos (Elton John)

This is my final edit of the Elton John music video where we filmed and edited the lip syncing to the beat of the song. We realised during this task that it is quite difficult to get it right and will need a lot of footage to overcome the difficulties whilst editing.

We began by filming the footage in a school classroom which had quite a bit of room for unique camera work. We played the song in the background and had the main singers try to sing along with the music by looking at the lyrics, once the singers got used to it we got them into position and put the lyric sheet on the camera so the singers look more at the camera whilst recording. During the recording phase we directed the people on camera by shouting at them things as the audio would be cut from the video as it will only be lip sync; this meant that we can direct the people in front of the camera and tell them what to do/how to do it, this allowed it to to allow us to make the performance look more realistic. During the recording we had a few different shots such as one master shot from the front, two of both singers, one of backup singers and one final shot using a Dolley that allowed us to move the camera on wheels making a stable manoeuvring shot.
We had a few takes on the whole minute of the song as backup footage but even then we did have a line or two missing as the singers forgot to sing to it and the directors never had noticed it.
Once we filmed the singers singing to the song we went to the editing studio where we had used a programme called Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Using adobe premiere we arranged all the clips we filmed in layers that we synced with the music so we wouldn't have to sync each individual edited clip to the song.

As you can see with the blue layers each filmed footage is in its own layer and we switched between the layers by using the pen tool and fading through each of the layers (you can see with the yellow lines). In this picture you can also see how i took advantage of the editing softwares features by utilising the markers (green arrows above the timeline) to see where to make cuts or where one footage ends.

 This is the full screen picture of the programme used, top left is where you have the effect controls that open up in the window, top right is the source/timeline footage, bottom right is the timeline and editing station and the bottom left is where you find the source footage and video/audio effects.