Editing Process End Of February

The editing process at the end of February is going well. The first minute of the video has been completed and the final minute and a half is finished too so the middle segment of the video is the only thing that remains. That part of the video is the remaining section of 'Hey Ya!' and requires a disc-scratching sound effect before entering the 'Roses' remix.

We also need to find a way of creating a relevant background for the green-screen clips as without it it looks bland and unprofessional. We independently filmed Ollie writing out our band name 'Rough Cuts' in a graffiti-style on to a piece of card and this could be one potential background that we use. We were thinking along similar lines for the white-screen footage but feel that even without a background it looks smart and resembles a a photo studio. This gives the impression that we are a genuine band who have access to such facilities - and we can say that it is a "behind-the-scenes", documentary type video.

We may require to do a couple of slight re-shoots for small sections but as it stands we've not encountered any major editorial problems and the progress we are making is good.

Filming + Further Photoshoot

In the last few days we've completed what we hope is our final round of filming and implemented a new idea where we captured myself and Safiye in a 'photoshoot' type environment. It played in to the montage/satirical style that we are wanting to portray.

We've filmed against a projector that had a background of kaleidoscopic colours and patterns and that will feature midway through the video and reflect our 'wacky' theme that we'd mentioned in the pre-production stage.

We took the opportunity to take some more photos with the white screen we set up, as well as the projector, and these will feature on our websites and, as you can see below, on here. These are photos from the white screen shoot because the ones with the projector are currently being edited on PhotoShop:

We're very pleased with how all the photos have turned out and the colour effects boast the sleek look we were looking for. Ollie was in charge of the photography and changed the aperture of the camera so that the colours would be more noticeable than myself, Safiye and Dan, who feature in them. As we did it in a dark room they illuminate a little bit and it can be portrayed as a dream-like state, which is conducive to the viewer's vicarious living. The photos in question will be uploaded at a later date.