editing the fiver promo

on monday we began editing for the junction promo. the other groups were doing there own videos so i was only working with alex and hayden. the footage that was taken at the fiver night had already been uploaded so the first thing we did was we went through it and put a star next to the footage we liked and thought would work in our promo video. we knew what our idea was so it wasn't hard going through the footage and pulling out stuff we knew would work. there was a lot of footage though so this pretty much took the entire morning.

once we did that we quickly put together an intro that would work. we weren't after anything final but what we came up with was brilliant. what hayden managed to do was cut to a drum beat that was taken from the sound check footage. the idea being that the drum beat would get quicker and quicker (rapid cutting) and then the finaly would be the fiver. we decided to keep the 30seconds sequence that we had made. i liked it but i didn't think it would make a good introduction. the footage was all from the sound check and we needed to explain everything. not just the sound check. if we put that at the beginning it wouldn't be in the correct order.

while hayden carried on editing the sequence and trying to find a way to make the idea work, me and alex sat down and wrote out a storyboard for what the video would entail. simon bates (our client) loved the navy advert style of video so we worked from that. we knew from our pitch what the video was going to be like. what we did was we wrote down what we needed to include, information and such, and then wrote down short sentences that we could use to narrate the promo.

at the end of the day we had managed to come up with a easy to follow storyboard and we had already got 30seconds of footage that we could use. i still wasn't sure we should use it but i was fine with keeping it at theis early stage.