Kill It Kid Post Production

My Post production roll for the Kill It Kid project has been editor. Myself and Tom have edited it together, taking it in turns at some points and working together at others. The main problem we have had in post is the audio. As suspected on the night, the audio feed we were receiving from the mixing desk was faulty, and only one of the Mic's was coming through. This was a real blow, and has made things much more difficult in the edit. Our original plan on discovering the dodgy audio was to instead use the footage to create a music video. So Kieran got a track from the band, and luckily it was one they had played on the night. This is the song:

Pray On Me by Kill It Kid

But after trying it out with the images it was no where near the same tempo, and the live version they played was a lot quicker than the recorded version. We tried to sync up bits here and there that would work, and some looked alright, but it didn't work overall because we didn't have enough cut aways to cover large parts of the vocals we couldn't sync. So for example we'd have a 30 second section with nothing we could sync, so we would have to use cutaways. But we didn't have enough cutaways not to show something that was out of sync. This is why I tried to stress to everyone at the start to film who they had been assigned, and not to always follow the action. This way we would have had a large variety of footage of each band member the whole way through, whether they were playing or not. Thus giving opportunities to cut away in situations like this. We also tried to use the interview Kieran filmed but the questions asked didn't really prompt any decent responses, and most of the time it was like a conversation, so there wasn't enough we could use to carry the film, and base it around, also the framing was off and the sound was pretty poor.

We attempted to make the film like this anyway, but after watching it back it was clear it wasn't working, and the combination of un-synced and synced footage was somewhat off putting. So it was back to the drawing board to think of a new angle we could approach the film from, with what we had. It was really hard to come up with a concept for the film with the footage being so limited, but after exhausting all options we decided to change the idea and make it a kind of intro film to the band, a little taster to introduce people to Kill It Kid. This way we could use quotes, still images, and multiple songs to portray them, rather than worry about syncing.

This concept was much better for the footage we had, and once we started on it the ideas started to flow. For the structure we wanted to use quotes over the music as an intro, to introduce the band without mentioning who they are, to get viewers intrigued. And then showing the bands name after them. I feel this makes the song then work with the slow motion, un-synced footage because the song is already established, so you don't try to connect the 2 as much as if you watched them together from the start of the song, and it seems more like a montage sequence. We then focused on each member of the band, with a sub title reading their name. I think this looked good and the combination of moving image pausing on a pose worked. After this we had another montage before a voice over that we found on youtube, as none of the interview really worked for this purpose. We then went on to show the interview, a few answers from it, but the sound is so quiet compared to the audio track it is a really noticeable transition.