After Production comes post production, in which we assign jobs for editing the product we created. I am assigned to do the digipak where as leena will be working on the music video and maria on the website.

Right before our Editing class in which our sir showed us how to work with Premiere Pro, my team had to select final clips we had to use in the video. Me and Leena assembled all the Finalized clips in one folder during our class so that leena can easily pick videos to edit.

This is a video of my sir being recorded as he was teaching us how to work with premiere on one of the class members work as an example.

We decided to compile our narrative and performance according to the shot-list, creating a sequence. Adobe Premiere was new to Me and Maria and we were inexperienced but as Leena had took IT and had used these software in o levels before she knew much more than us, Although we used  basic tools/features like import feature (to bring the clips), selection tool (to make basic selections and move them around the timeline) and the razor tool to cut and trim a few of our clips, Leena did add some of her own knowledge into practice and edited the video.

The starting was pretty smooth and according to our sir the frame was also quite impressive. However, there’s a jump cut present when she looks up at the sky. Jump cuts often feel jarring or feel like a mistake. Jump cuts are normally used to show an unsettling moment or unease for a character on screen. In this shot, we didn’t need this so we have decided to fix this. Moving on to the performance of the singer we decided to cut it short and merge other videos of the artist to make it look aesthetic and smooth.

Furthermore moving ahead to the actress there comes a part where she goes to pick the key has major abruptness and jerky movement so we decided to fix that as well. Somehow the Box shot came out to be better than expected, this was my favorite scene from our production as Match on action  was perfectly done when she’s looking at the things placed inside the wooden box. Also, we decide to add a blackout shot when she closes the wooden box so it adds dramatic effect 

Anyways after that we felt like the next few shots were a bit lengthy and were making the video boring. Also in particular we decided to remove a shot in which she’s trying on a pair of earrings as we already have another similar shot at the end of the music video so it would have felt similar erasing the perspective we were trying to ignite. We also decided to trim the shot where she’s walking toward the mazaar because it was too long.

Coming towards the end we had to fix the temperature of this outdoor shot.  As it had to be darker outside for a sunset. Also we decided to add more performance to make it look as the performance and narrative is in sync.

After finally being done with the tiresome 4 day shoot, we all rested and congratulated each other for the superb team work. After Each production day when we used to come back home and we watched the videos we made for flaws and to know if we needed to re shoot certain scenes again. Overall i feel as an amateur student working with filming Music Videos for the very first time, we did a great job. One of the drawbacks was not having  enough equipment and helpers as it did affect the quality of work produced. The Clips we created wasn’t up-to my expectations. Some shots really made us work hard for it, From laying down on the floor for match on action to zooming in for extreme closeups we kept everything we learnt in class in mind during recording.

I uploaded some of the video clips on my YouTube, after me and leena selected and rejected clips that we wanted to add in the final music video so we could explain the process of why we selected and what we liked the most.

For this very first clip we selected, the actress isn’t looking directly in the camera and acts like shes veiling her head which was what we needed. In the end the camera did slightly jerk which will be eradicated in the editing process.

This second clip is focusing on the items placed in the box especially the necklace, i really loved how the camera was blur in the start where she picks up and then it slowly focused on the details of the necklace as she feels it.

This Third clip is a bit longer but we will just be using some of the seconds from it.  This is where the artist is shown synchronizing with the song we wanted to add it in the video for the aesthetics and for scenes where song has instrumental tunes.

Clip 4, 5, and 12 were also important some were for the aesthetics some were based on the shot list, i didn’t post all the shots as it would have taken forever. This is an overall gist of the work we collected.