after i have marked all of the footage

This is now what my editing software will look like as I am editing it all together. I have chosen to do it in this way as I have now sectioned and named all of the separate pieces of footage. I did this because I will find it easier to work on one scene at a time as a posed to working on them all at the same time.

The bottom left corner- scene 1

The bottom centre- scene 2

The bottom right corner- scene 3

In the top right hand corner of the picture there are pictures that were taken on the day of us filming. I am going to use one of the pictures at the end of my music video so that I can promote the song via the music video meaning that it is a promotional video which is what most music videos are.

marking up my data

Today we learnt the technique of marking our footage. We also learnt about why this was useful and how it would help during the editing process of making a media production. However in order for use to get the full feel of just how useful marking footage can be we needed to put this into practice for ourselves using our own footage that we filmed for our production of the music video.

From doing this myself i have found out just how useful it can be mark up the footage that we have collected. The reason that it is useful is because during the edit stage it is a lot easier to put the footage in the running order of what you want it to run in. Along side this having a spreadsheet is also helpful as it allows you to put the name of the piece of footage and then say what it is and wether or not it is a good or bad take. This then also helps you in hat footage to avoid and whats best to use.

The picture above is and example of the spreadsheet that goes along with the marking of the footage. As you can see i the far left hand column I have the name of each bit of footage and then to the right of it says if it is good or bad and what the shot is of. On this spreadsheet i have highlighted in red the takes that are not useful and I will no to avoid putting them into my final production of the music video, however the ones that are highlighted in green are the ones I will be using and the ones that are not highlighted I may use at some point if needed. I have also highlighted each of the scenes in a different colour to help section them off. The way I have named my is in a code. for example 'c01s01t03a01sec2' I know what this means.

c01- camera
s01- scene
t03- take
a01- angle
sec02- section

I have named my footage in codes so that I can see how many takes of the same shot I have and I can also then put them into the running order in which they need to go by following the 'section' and 'sene' parts in the code. Every time it is a new 'scene' the 'section' number will go back to one.

Also from this I could also then put each of the scenes into separate folders to section them one step further which would then let me work with one scene at a time, as a posed to all the scenes and sections at the same time.

below is the development stages of my footage marking.

 Above is stage one

Above is stage two

Above is the final stage

I have now completely marked up all of my footage so that I know what is what and where it need to go.