I was part of a team that was tasked with creating a video to promote the Augusta 750s motorbike. During the filming process I worked with Tony May who taught us how to shoot and light our shots.
Client: David Poole
Role: Editor
Storyboard & Script
The first two things that where completed was to draw up a storyboard and a script. This allowed us to know what sound effects and music to use, and shot type and the movement of the shot. This helped to give a clear idea of what we needed to do during the filming process and allowed us to light it as we wanted.
Filming
We then filmed our shots, Tony May helped us with lighting the motorbike and gave us tips on how to highlight the specific areas we wanted. We used the Sony FS7 along with a jib to film smoothly in 4K. The jib allowed us to get closer to the bike and kept the camera steady whilst filming. For lighting we used a soft box light above the motorbike which allowed us to focus and set the shot. When filming we used the Dado lights and a light sabre, which were stationary or moving to add a reflection to the motorbikes metal.
Sound Effects & Music
The next step was to edit the sound and music. This is when we took the music that we wanted to use and made sure it fit with what we were trying to convey. We then edited the music so we could intertwine any sound effects that we chose to include. The music style that we chose is suspenseful, being predominantly stringed instruments, with deep heavy beats. This allowed the video to be edited in time with beats of the music.
Video Editing
Editing the video recordings, and follow the directors storyboard to create the final video. This meant editing the videos to make them brighter or darker, stabilise them if there was any shake within the recording, or adding effects to the video itself. I corrected the colouring for the recordings, reduced the exposure and increased the contrast to make each clip darker, and to highlight the colours of the bike. I also decreased the black to make the overall scene darker and focusing the attention on the bike. I used the time remapping tool to change the speed of each shot, which allowed me to increase or decrease the playback of each clip. For one of the clips I had to reverse the whole clip so it would show the name at then end, the reason for doing this so it fits the music that has been selected for the video. Then I edited the clips to end on the main beats of the music. I then stabilised all of the recordings so they were smooth, I did this by using the warp stabilise tool. On the final shot I had to add a digital zoom to emphasis the bike more.