Lip-syncing
When filming the actors lip syncing the words, we didn't realise how out of time they were. What my partner and I had to do was extend the duration of one of the shots so that it fit in with the lyrics in the song. The shot of Elliot who was one of the teenagers narrating 'one is the loneliest number' was initially out of time as he didn't know the words but by extending the the clip by 67% and lining it up with the audio, we can also see that his words are in time. The screen shot below shows the shot that I am referring to of Elliot:
Continuity
The scene where the two boys and girls are inside the house and on the sofa became a small issue when editing. Abi who was the the girl who the boys found attractive originally came into the shot wearing just the dress, however midway through directing them she put on a red cardigan and we carried on filming however being unaware of the difference. At the time we didn't notice however when we started editing we became aware of it. To resolve this we had luckily found some footage of her putting on the cardigan. We cut that shot out and pasted it into a short space in between shots. Please see the screenshot below of the red cardigan scene below:
Video Quality
Francesca and I agreed that after the shot of the teenagers laughing at the tramp, the video began to go 'downhill' in not only its quality but also style. This was mostly due to the rush we were in aswell as not knowing how to direct the actors. After showing acouple of our friends the video, they said that the overall scene that bought down the music video was the shot of the two girls fighting. This was probably because it not only went on for too long but also it didn't really make much sense as the audience didn't know originally why they were fighting. We solved this by cutting the shots of Hayley looking unimpressed on the couch. We tried to emphasise the fact that she is being left out and not given enough attention. We then found another shot of everyone passing around the alcohol and not giving it to Hayley. We then put that in and showed it as that being 'the breaking point'. That is when we could show the girls fighting. This made the audience understand much more of what was going on. We also ended up shortening the fighting scene to 7 seconds and also blurred it and and cut the scene into much smaller shots, please see a screenshot of this fighting scene below:
The last problem that occurred was when the girlfriend slapped the boyfriend. We can see the boyfriend laugh when he gets slapped, this obviously shows that it is not realistic so what we had to do was, blur the clip and slow it down. This then emphasizes 'the power' of the slap' but also it distorts the boyfriends face smiling.
