To make my this edit I decided to make a much more continuity aware piece to the best of my ability so again I chose the footage I wanted to use and set new in and out points so that I would only have the best parts of each clip when I put it on the timeline. However when I entered a new clip onto my timeline I spent a lot more time slowly clipping it further if needed it or extending it so that it lined up exactly where the last shot had left of. This did become a challenge with some of the shots because the two dancers would be slightly out of time with each other so you could get one lined up so it flowed well but not the other dancers. This left with a limited amount of clips I could use if I wanted the continuity to work. I also on occasion had to sacrifice the continuity for a shot I really loved. These were some really hard editorial decisions to make which is why this edit took me a lot longer than the last.
I had already sourced music for my first edit however after reviewing the first edit with the musician and producer for B Rec who supplied me the music we decided something softer might work a bit better so he sent me over some more tracks on Sound Cloud for me to use. I chose one very early on in this edit process so that as I was adding things to the timeline I could see how and if they worked with the music. This also meant I could get the pace to fit much better with the rhythm of the music too. The music I chose this time was called 'Ripple' by Karenin courtesy of B Rec. This track was more acoustic based and therefore softer showing much more potential to work with the dance video.
Once I had all the footage on my timeline and was happy with the way it flowed with the music I then decided that I needed to colour correct a lot of the clips. This is because I really didn't like the blue and green tones on some of the footage as it made you loose the proper flesh tones. I went onto the colour correction options in the effects control section of each clip and clicked on colour curves to get this menu up:
This meant I could carefully adjust each tone of the clip to achieve the best most natural tones as possible like so:
On the left you can see how this clip looked before I adjusted the colour tones and on the right you can see what it looked like after I adjusted it. This made the continuity of the piece overall a lot better too because now it all looked like it had been shot the same which counteracted the problem of every group shooting with different settings. Another setting which I found really useful on Adobe Premier whilst editing was the brightness and contrast setting in the effects control. This allowed me to make it similar lighting and also add contrast to add a bit more drama. I couldn't make the lighting exactly the same in every clip though because some of them were so under or over exposed that if I tried changing them completely it actually reduced the quality of the clip which I wanted to try and avoid as much as possible. I needed it to be as higher quality as possible so that when it is played on the large cinema screen for the assessment it looks professional.
Finally I was happy with what I had produced so I exported it. I had however had problems when exporting previously because I hadn't had the right settings on. My biggest mistake was I had used interlaced when we were actually shooting in progressive. Here in the end is the setting I used to export:
Here is the finished second edit now I have exported it with the right settings to the best quality:
I am much happier with this second edit because it is a lot more refined and I feel like it has a much better sense of story to it.
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