Test footage

Yesterday we went around college and took test footage of shots we are thinking about using in our video. In our video we are considering having a shot of the guitarist jumping into a pool, the shot will then be reversed so we took shots of someone jumping off a bench so we could reverse it to see it if would work and if it looked good. We also took a tracking shot which we sped up. We are also thinking of having a split screen in the video of the guitarist stepping from one location to another so we took two shots in different locations and whilst editing we made it into a split screen. During the editing process we tried a variety of techniques including; cropping and resizing frames, reversing, slowing down, speeding up etc. After trying the techniques we found out how hard they are to do and if they will work for our video.
The split screen technique was harder to do than we thought, it was hard to line up Sam's body so that it matched from one side of the screen to the other. However the end result did look good. The tracking shot was very rustic due to some interesting camerawork. The reverse shot was easiest to do and looked very effective. We used push slides for transitions, these looked fabulous and we might use them in our video.