Skill Development.

This year, I feel my skills regarding both planning and editing have improved quite a bit from from last year. With the planning, I felt I was more prepared about what and where we was filming as we had numerous conversations as a group about what type of shots and the number of base-tracks we planned to film. During these conversation, we also talked about what the costume Yasmin Feruz would be wearing for each location, compared to last year, costume and location planning was a lot better as last year we had a few difficulties in terms of sorting out where we were filming and what the costume would be. 

Another thing that differed from last year was the whole production itself and the way the approach to it was taken. For the thriller opening last year, we filmed bit by bit in terms of scenes and locations due to the story boarded structure as with an image and idea of how the final edit would look and how the cuts would be like. However with the music video, we didn't really have a proper structure at first to base the music video around, so this took some more planning and some vital experimenting. 

As we were editing the music video, we did start again as we thought the structure could be better which had to be more strict and less confusing which is why we limited the number of locations and base-tracks we used. All in all we had a total of about 35 base-tracks in separate 7 locations, with roughly only 15 base-tracks being used throughout the whole music video. This is one thing I gained from filming this music video, is that you should plan the structure first and keep it simple.

During editing, I did have the chance to experiment with things, for example lights leaks, base-tracking, motion, fades, filters, widescreens,  and again  like last year, split screens. I do feel that I have become quite a bit of a perfectionist in regards to editing, as the amount of times I went back to change and tweak small things led to me spending the last two weeks of my entire free time editing. However, I am satisfied with the final result but I am wary of whether I will get the grade that I hope to get.