Diary Entry: 5th November

After returning from the holidays me and Lauren got straight into editing our project. We watched the video again and decided that the bath scene at the end was not very effective and was not working with the rest of the video footage. In the bath scene there was green paint on the wall which was not supposed to be there and because it was highly visible we felt it would not be appropriate for a music video. Therefore we decided to film an alternative ending where Grace would revisit the bench but walk past smiling and singing showing the end of their relationship.

Once deciding this, we felt that the footage that we had needed more effects. On one of the shots of grace singing we put a magnify effect. This placed a bigger image of her on the left as well as the original image and looked very effective because of originally changing the colour and contrast to make the image look washed out and white. This was only done to one of the shots because we wanted each singing part to look different. Another effect that was placed in the shots was a blur on the edges of the frame. This effect was used on the romantic sitting down scene and worked very well because of the camera technique and video effect. As the camera zoomed out the candle lit tea lights appeared through the blurred frame which added romance to the shot. Another video effect used was during the argument scene. The colour of the room was quite bright and did not fit with the lyrics at this certain point, we therefore made the scene darker to make the lighting stand out. As well as doing this we increased the speed and duration of the shot where Grace throws her pillow to dramatize her anger. Moreover we then edited the REC titles. The text was moved to the left corner and a battery icon was made to make the image of a camera look more realistic. We razored the title shot so that it would repeatedly flash on and off the screen to show it is recording as well as showing the battery decreases by slowly the battery bars disappearing.

Author: Kiran Paul