Editing On Adobe After Effects

From the feedback I got from Hot Desking, I decided to stabilise some of my footage in Adobe After Effects. I decided to stabilise some of the footage because in the feedback, a couple of people thought some of the footage was shaky or even hand held because it was that shaky. 

I stabilised a piece of footage by dragging the clip I wanted into After Effects. I then searched "warp" in the search bar on the right hand side. I clicked the "warp stabiliser" which then stabilises my footage the best it can. To then complete it, I then go to "file", "export" and then "add to render queue".

I overall think that the stabiliser improved some of my footage a lot. It made my footage less shaky which is really good. However, there was some footage that even the stabiliser couldn't 100% fix so I will be doing some more filming to see if I can use the footage I re film instead. 

First Edit For Music Video

This is my First Draft for my Music Video. If I am completely honest, I do not think this is the best to my ability which is why I am going to re film some of the footage such as adding cutaways to make the music video flow a little better.

I think as my first draft it is good but it can definitely improve. Some of the improvements I will be making is filming some cutaways of trees and leaves. I will also be doing more close ups of the actresses face. To send the message more clearer to the audience I want the video to look as if her boyfriend is filming this instead of assuming the director is doing it so I want to have an old camera style effect on it to suggest that is what he sees when he looks at her (referencing back to the idea of Narrative; relationship between the lyrics and the music).

Weather Forecast

To do some more filming for my music video, I did some planning in advanced. I looked on the weather app on my phone (top photo) to see what the weather is going to be like in the weekend. From looking at the weather app and what the weather was supposingly like by also looking on the internet. I found that the weather is going to be sunny on Saturday and cloudy/raining on the Sunday.

This gives me the opportunity to try and do some filming on Saturday or even see if Sunday is clear enough to film. 

I have to make sure that I have the right weather (blue skies) because when I shot the last lot of footage, it was very sunny and Autumnal. However, as the season is changing, I have to improvise with the trees and the setting as the locations are going to look different, 

Feedback From First Draft

Feedback from first draft

My class decided to do a "hot desk" where we all watch each others videos and then we answer the questions that they want us to answer.

I found that I had a wide range of comments and I am happy to say that they are honest opinions and feedback as there is a mixture of positive feedback and constructive criticism. Some of the constructive criticism e.g "filming is handheld" isn't accurate because I actually did not film hand held, when using the fig rig, it was to do with the shakinees of my hands holding the fig rig.

My next step is to take on the improvements that people thought I should do and do some re filming and add more footage in so they understand message/narrative of the video because half of the people found it unclear. I am also going to do some editing in After Effects by stabilising some of my footage as some are shakey.