Mixing video and audio

I am still in the process of trying to mix the video and the audio together. The video plays fine, but when I attempt to mix it with the mp3 file, it doesn't work. I think this may be because the audio is not yet properly rendered. Another reason for this may be that our music video footage that we currently have on Final Cut Express was recorded with sound. It may be that I need to split the audio from our recorded video in order for it to work.

Today, I will again try to get the audio to play with the video.

Also, we should have the rest of our music video filmed soon so we will be ready to edit.

Music video

Last lesson, we uploaded some of our video footage from our camera onto Final Cut express. Today, I have also transfered our mp3 music file onto Final Cut Express. Right now, the full song and part of our video is on Final Cut Express. In this lesson, I will try to find out how to put the video and song together.

Also, I need to learn how to edit the video properly so that the music video matches the music effectively.

Plan for today!!!!!!!

We are now nearly done with our filming and we just need to film in a couple more locations: the drama studio and somewhere in Newport. I have gone to the drama studio to ask for permission to use it for filming, and we should be able to do some filming during our free periods (2nd, 3rd, and 5th). 

We are planning to get our filming finished very soon and another update will be posted shortly.

final song

on the last Friday before half term we finalized our song. On this day we cut the song down from 6 minutes to 3 minutes and recorded the lyrics onto the song. I then edited the lyrics onto the song and cut them into small samples and spread them over the song. I then put in several effects at the beginning of the first set of lyrics and just before the last set of lyrics. I aim to upload the song to YouTube sometime during this week. this in itself has been a problem because for the past 2 weeks i have been trying different things to upload it without success.

Update

over half term we did the majority of our filming. We still need to film our running scene that we attempted to film several times during dusk period to add a sense of enigma and to try and disguise the face of the runner. We found that it was too difficult to film at night because we lost light too quickly. To overcome this we have decided to film during the day and try to use a hat over the runners face to disguise him,in case we cant make the hat idea work we have a backup plan to use the drama studio as it is predominately all blacked out so we can use spot lights and low key lighting to give our desired effect. We plan to have all of our filming finished today (Monday 2nd November) and after that we can start editing.

Video ideas

ok to this post will be added the video of the filmed storybord by this monday.

We start with a push in of a man standing in a blacked out area, as the push in progresses the man starts to tilt his head up whilst looking slightly sinister. Whilst the push in is happening different cutting effects such as rewinds, slow-mo and super fast jump cuts will be used to make an uneasy feel.
After 15 seconds the first new noise begins which is the sound of running footsteps, with this we are going to have shots of somone running with somone standing in the far background only visible through street lights. Shots such as close ups of the persons feet running, worms eye views of the man running, and over the shoulder shots of the man in the background watching the man running. Whilst this is happening different effects will be used to enhance the sinister feel.
After the running noise has become a smaller part of the track we will move back to our push ins of the man in the blacked out area but with different lights such as lazers and acme LED's flasshing on and off with jump cuts to shorten the push in. Also rewinds and different slow-mo techniques shall be used to add to the sinister feel.
The song at this point comes to the drop and the music starts to become broken and twisted, we shall use this point as a turning point in the video where things start to go a bit mad. To do this we will use shots from the first section all messed up in an organised way and right befor the song drops a shot of the man in the darked out area smiling using either a close up or an extream close up of his face with a canted angle.
The song then drops and the shot of the man flickers out using a transition effect (undesided) and a still medium / long shot shows the man in the darkend out area with loads of people Dancing around him as he stands still, whilst using a stobe light we can cut it into sections where in one second you see loads of people around this man and in another second there is nowhan around him. As this is happening the camera eventualy pushes in but much slower depending on the chorus
Once the chorus has finished we move back to our narrative and use as many shots that we have already filmed as possible to fill small sections. The bridge will consist of strobing images of the man in the blacked out area and different tracking shots of the man running mixed together.

In the end it turns out the man in the darkend out area is the man running away from himself.

The video will use alot of sigmunds theory of voyerism as many of the shots used will make it seem like you are watching the character running (or as if the man in the darkend area is watching himself whilst chasing himself) I thought this was a great influence as it works to bring out suspence and people like this!

OK, Deadlines.

We need ALL filming done by the end of next week.
This means i need all storybording done by monday.
Lets do it!

Did we meet the dealine?: see posts on 23rd