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Rough Cut


Now that the Shoot had been completed we began to progress in our respective assigned tasks to achieve maximum amounts of work. Video Editing is being done by Mahnoor due to her previous experiences editing small independent videos for personal use which means that she is familiar with the editing program Adobe Premiere Pro and knows how to utilize it.

The first step was obtaining the Footage from the camera's SD card and transferring it into her laptop. We then reviewed the footage together and selected the shots we wanted to use and rejected  extra or bad footage.

She started by organizing the footage in folders to be easily accessed when inside the program and so she wouldn't have to individually open each video, preview it to see if it's the required one or spend time looking for a certain shot in a mixed jumble of some odd 180 plus shots. So with quick organization she divided the folders into: RED, BLUE, YELLOW, BLACK, RESIDENCE and TELEPHONE Scenes and placed their respective footage inside it.


After this we began working on the editing program. The first step was obtaining a rough cut, she needed to bring order to the videos and begin constructing a skeleton of the music video.
She began by following the Shot List and searched out all the shots needed and assembled them on the timeline:


Timeline is zoomed out

She left spaces to indicate the performance sections to help her during the assembly process and to not get confused with a continuous line of raw footage later. None of the videos was cut yet and still consisted  of large blocks with extra footage of talking, redos and fails. New footage was added in order to replace a few scenes we were not able to record at the shoot.
The next step was trimming the videos:

 

Extra seconds were shaved off each video to achieve the idle shot required, when shooting we always started rolling the camera 2 seconds beforehand and than instructing the actor to perform. Once the instructions were done Mahnoor would wait another 2 seconds that no important task was being filmed and stop the camera from filming. This mean't that no camera shaking would be recorded when pressing the stop button. Trimming was done along side a few more rearrangements. I had to assemble the montages, match on actions and sequences.


The last step included the merging of all the footage (without the performance videos) into a continuous shot without the spaces between the footage that she had used to indicate performance sequences and bring some sort of a pattern onto the timeline to help locate what sections she wanted to work on in accordance to the Shot List. The audio was muted and The final rough cut was exported and uploaded on Youtube. It can be viewed below:



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