Filming the First Shot & Editing

The next lesson we went out and after searching around town we found “Dry 201” a really good bar and they gave us permission to shoot in.As it was going to be the opening of the video we listened closely to the song and because there were a lot of single beats at the start, we decided to incorporate this into the video. When the barman was walking towards the character, we decided for every beat, there would be a small jump cut so it gave the effect of the barman coming closer without actually walking.We went back to edit the clip and after looking at edited clip we realised there was a lot of movement in the background which made it look unprofessional and when the barman was coming towards us, we didn’t allow enough of a gap to add the jump cut so the picture looked distorted so we decided to re-shoot it.
We also used a programme called Motion which gave us the ability to make an introducing title which we also edited to the beat of the song.

By Paul Strafford