Planning Rushes - Preproduction

In order to make the editing process easier, I decided that I would make an order of my rushes so that I know what order to place the clips in when editing. This may be a lengthy process however will make the editing quicker. After naming the rushes so they are easier to distinguish, I will be able to select, for example, 'Pride#38' and place it into the editing software. In the industry, editors go through the processes in this order, Preproduction, Dailies, First Assembly, Rough Cut, and the Final Cut. I will be combining the steps of preproduction and dailies in this post so that the editing should be swifter. However, this order isn't the final order; when editing I may choose that some clips don't work as well in the order that I thought they would.

I started by looking through all of my footage and deleting the rushes that I knew for certain I would not use. Then, I numbered each clip, for example, 'Pride28' so that I could find it easier; often when a clip is called 'DSC_00639' it can get confusing because they all look the same.

This then allowed me to create a list of each shot in order just by watching through clips, choosing which and noting down it's name so that I can create get the order down on paper before I display it in more of a storyboard style.

Planning the sequence:

Storyboard Plan of the order of Rushes

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I am very glad I have made this post and generally planned in detail because it will make the editing process much easier. This is due to the fact that I can copy the plan above and drop each shot into the editing software, which will be half of the editing complete (of course, there will be a lot more to do however, even with the clips and audio, it should look more like a music video than just the screenshots). 

This post was useful however in that it allowed me to see slightly how the music video will turn out, and I am so far happy with what I see. Yet there is still a lot to do and just by looking at this storyboard, doesn't give me the clearest indication of how the video will turn out. This will only become clear once I put all of the clips into the editing software so I can play the clips with the audio and at least see if I like the sequence of the shots and see if they tell the story well. If not, I will shuffle the clips slightly until I am satisfied. In the next post, I will be going through the editing process, whilst I edit the video.