YM- Production Log 1/12/2011

Today, as we now have a complete timeline full of all the footage we want to use, all of it cut into short shots and having had the black and white filter, brightness and contrast and rbg effects applied, we were ready to really get down to the finally part of the editing. 

To go about this, we decided to work from the beginning, moving through the video gradually.  As we did this, we tried to perfect each shot, both visually and in terms of the cutting rate- making sure it cuts in time to the beat.  

We also did the split screens as we went through, adding the colour matte's and transitions, which compromised quite a lot of time. 

We had an idea for one of the studio shots to layer Henry singing 3 times, so it appears them singing together, and to have them slide in one after the other. Again, syncing the three tracks was time consuming, we then had to add the colour matte's and transitions to make the shot the quirky, fun mood we have constantly been trying to create.

We managed to get about half the song completely edited today, leaving us the final day to finish.  This is a tight deadline and tomorrow will be very tight.

We have had a couple of problems with premiere: firstly it runs very slowly, however we are aware this is because of the amount of video layers we are using: all needed due to the split screen effects and colour matte's.  The second issue we have been having is the juddering, causing us to need to render sections almost each time we make a cut as it is impossible to view the footage realistically until we do.