Today I headed in to the studio to begin my shift of work in the editing process for our music video. I arrived at 11am, where Steph and Luna had been toiling away since 9am. They’d been problem solving since the morning and had discovered how to clean up matte issues when changing the size of the green screen footage, among other fixes.

I began working with them and we put together solid material for the intro,  first verse and chorus. This was a painstaking process mind you, as I really came to realise that Premiere Pro is very delicate territory. One incorrectly moved keyframe can wreak all sorts of havoc. Nevertheless we managed to get through that chunk and Steph had to head off.

Yuxin arrived at around 12:30 and the three of us decided to revise some of the parts we’d already gone over to make them more rhythmic. Through gruelling repetition, my understanding and competence in editing tools and shortcuts has greatly improved and I feel that I can get into the groove of things now. After Luna left, Yuxin and I began to loosely plot out the material for the remaining sections in the song.

Now that we’ve put together a rough cut of the song, I’m starting to feel more confident about the project. In a sense I feel like we’re held back by not knowing how to do a few things, but I think that simultaneously prompts us to explore different ways of approaching the way the video is presented. Since we began conceptualising this music video we agreed that we wanted to embrace simplicity, so I guess some of these restrictions force us to find power in simplicity. Admittedly we’re getting some kind of Gondry-esque effects with what we’ve done so far so can’t complain!