Ali Ahad A2

This is the rough cut of our music video, excluding the ending part. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ddaQn2JSo3XM-9ExB6EesLocOJG7ACAC/view

 Here is how the final timeline of our music video looks like.

So when the editor (jarrar) shared the rough cut, I asked him that did he color grade it. And he said he color corrected it and color grade will not be of much use as well as he will need more time to do it and we were already short of time. Some example of the color correction. original: edited: original: edited:

 According to the final script we were supposed to finish the music video by the dancing shots. But soon the editor realized that we do not have any dancing shots, because while shooting we decided that we are not doing those shots because of lack of actors. we even made the rough cut without the ending scene because we weren't sure what to do. 

 Another jump we found out was in the scene where I get in the car crash. The jump was that immediately after the car crash we showed the actor laying on the ground but in the middle of nowhere in a very  different mise-en-scene, on grass basically which didn't made sense. we didn't had enough time to re-shoot so insteead we corrected in the post. while editing we added an extra lip sync shot between the to shots, which to some extend covered up the jump and made it look like a jump cut.

 There was a scene in the video where we used green screen and masking. It was for very few seconds but it took much amount of effort and time. This scene was followed by the accident scene and it showed Natasha (actor) watching a video of Ahad (actor) who was laying on the ground. And to shoot this we simply put a green screen on the phone and later swapped it with footage of me laying on the ground. original: editied:

 After completing the shoot, we sat down to edit and on the first day we faced a problem of lip sync between to clips which looked like a jump. The jump came in the visuals for the lyrics 'imagine if the life that you though you shared,wasn't really there'. Basically the idea was that the guy ill be in the  middle of the frame and we will show his friends in the background until the lyrics 'wasn't really there' comes where all the friends will disappear from the background and only he is alone lip syncing the lyrics. However we found out that we couldn't join the clips because i as lip syncing in both shots and was moving which distrubed the whole shot as i was not in the right place in the frame. As planned i as not supposed to me and lip sync in the first half of the lyrics. Thankfully, we did shot the scene few extra time. One with lip syncing and the other without lip syncing. And when we used that footage thankfully we didn't felt any jump in the li...

This as our last day of shoot. The entire day was spent in Natasha's house who is the female main character in the music video.