So I taught myself how to use Premier Pro which was really quite intuitive and precise (I now realise the thousands of limitations of iMovie).
It's funny how you plan things to such an extent and then almost throw them out the window. Shooting the video alone was such a learning process for me I realised new and innovative ways to incorporate the lemon heads throughout without really sticking to my schedule. Factors such as natural lighting had an impact and some shots couldn't be used, but along the way as we were having so much fun with the heads thought "how about this" as a shot.
Whilst being on my placement as well whilst editing some of this it made me question the need for a rigid plan. I saw their planning documents for the Dyson shoot I attended and they were so much more vague than mine which were second by second. Things are definitely born and developed through trial and error and experimentation!
Feedback
I managed to finish the editing just before I got back to London for my placement, but now I'm here it would be the perfect opportunity to get some professional feedback from video editors. I showed it to my new friend here Joe who does just that and I was so surprised and thrilled he said it was brilliant and couldn't think of anything that needed changing in terms of the shots etc. but he gave me some really useful tips on how to give it a more professional feel.
Dimensions
By changing the screen dimensions to 1920x (roughly around) 818 - can be played around with, "whatever looks best". This will give it a more cinematic look as when these dimensions are uploaded to youtube it automatically widens the video , so whilst editing there will be black borders but when it's uploaded it will get rid of them . He specifically said do not add black shapes mimicking this as you'll have way too much black space and they will stay when its lengthened on youtube.
Colour grading
Learn how to use Lumetri: colour wheels on After Effects can really give it that depth & colour balance. This will be perfect as he mentioned it I could agree noticing some parts due to lighting and the lower quality of the fish eye lens were mis-coloured and a little inconsistent.
Joe then suggested his personal preferences and go-to settings, explaining it seems to be the perfect balance, but to be careful of skin tones as you can end up looking a little orange if it's too much!
mid tones: more towards the orange
shadows: more towards the blue
at the end play with the highlight which can help avoiding anyone looking like they're wearing too much tan! It was really insightful and encouraging feedback, I'm going to try out all of these methods.
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I messaged Ben about these alterations however it was too late by this point as his manager had what we had thought was the "ABSOLUTE FINAL VERSION.MP4" and was sending it off to try and get it released as a premier on a music blog. This would be great exposure for all included, the manager Mick is quite illusive so not sure what blogs he's currently trying for but we're crossing our fingers. I know now for the future however what I can do to give it that professional edge thanks to this feedback but I'm still really pleased with the final version and very chuffed in terms of the editing as Joe said it was great.
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