EDITING GOES ON AND ON

Hola mi gente!!

I was annoyed to see that Ali had decided to delete the clips of the policeman giving the camera the thumbs-up and of the three characters dancing. He said it looked bad because we were laughing but I think the laughing worked as it showed us being 'happy' and likeable. The problem now is that there will be a gap of footage to fill in at the end.

Anyway, we finally imported the song onto iMovie! The use of the rap audio enabled us to succesfully put together the policeman's rap scene. He makes some movements which we have synchronised with the rapping vocals, and we reckon it looks good enough to not need to re-film it. There is the problem that the vocals really sound like the rapper is black (he is) and our policeman is white..we can only hope most people will not take notice. If they do we can always just say it's a postmodern element! We end his scene with him throwing his gun on the floor as a way of finishing his lecture of stopping our violence.



We were also able to construct a different file in which we have roughly edited all of the clips of Julia so that we have a video of her 'singing' in order to the song from the start to end. There are quite a few gaps, as she did not sing the whole song through perfectly, but we now have lots of footage that we can add her into the narrative with.



We also added the establishing shot of our location and of the church at the start of our video. We have to do some editing regarding each character's scenario. In the phone-mugging scenario, the character looks around the corner and the next shot shows his head re-emerging even though it had already done so. The middle scenario simply has too much walking around, and mine has too much footage of the kid getting up and playing football. We only need a few seconds of it. As those two scenes got deleted, we now have a gap. What we will do is edit the track down by cutting the last chorus (many songs are edited down for their music videos) and have a final shot of Julia on her own before ending it with us taking off our masks. The final shot will be of the masks on the ground. Once we have sorted that, Ali can take it home and overlay Julia's file onto the narrative which should culminate in the end of our editing! Tomorrow we have our day at the CLC to create our CD sleeves and magazine advert.