Editing

I think we did very good on the editing, we have used a few different special styles to suit our soundtrack. I think the best edit we did was the one right at the beginning when we made Moe’s jump off the wall match the beat, we had to slow it down to the precise speed of the track and then reverse it so that every time the trumpet is heard he changes from jumping off the wall to jumping back up again. The group all had an input into how fast it should be and when it should be reversed etc and it all came together to make a very cool effective opening sequence. One of our hardest tasks to overcome was lip syncing our video to the actual soundtrack, the original house of pain main vocalist changes from fast pace to medium pace throughout the tune so it was near impossible to get it spot on however we used the same technique of slowing down our video to suit the soundtrack and in the end it looks almost as if moe is actually singing the song himself. Plenty of our original footage was well out of sync or way too long for our video so we did a lot of marking in and out after we had captured the footage off the camera, I personally don’t think that we cut out anything that we could or should of used. We did a long take of Beatrice, Marcel and Moe jumping between the gaps in a castle wall which was way too long to edit in as a full sequence so we decided to brake it up and mix and match with other shorter takes, this made it look like it was filmed at a faster pace and keeps the excitement of the tune going, the original house of pain video to jump around was very busy and fast paced just like the tune itself so we decided to keep it that way. the only aspect I think we might get marked down on is continuity, there are very few scenes in which we are wearing the same outfit as we were in other takes but in the original video they aren’t wearing the same outfits and we kind of nicked that idea so I hope they realise this and don’t hold it against us.

by tom wood