Playback and Review

Once the footage had been transferred from the digital camera, we began by reviewing and selecting shots, and in doing so we found that we were able to get to know our footage and it then made it a lot easier to choose which shots to put where because we knew what type of shot we wanted.
 After reviewing them, we were able to name each of the shots, and it was at this stage that we realised all of the shots would come in handy at some point, even if they seem irrelevant, sometimes abstract shots of things like Jonty's hands on the decks can look really interesting when switching between shots very quickly. We found that all of our shots were necessary and so did not delete any because we thought all of them were how we wanted them and you never know when you might be needing them.
The timeline is where all the footage gets dragged to in order to begin cutting it together. It is useful in the sense that it is an area where we are able to keep all the footage and access it easily, it also makes it easier for us to be able to refer back to shots and using different parts of them.
This is what the timeline looks like.

The music track was the first thing we put onto the timeline as this then enabled us to match up the videos to the music itself. When it came to dragging the clips onto the timeline, it became apparent how useful it is to name and rename shots in a specific way, as it meant when it came to coming up with an idea for the next shot, it is easy to remember which one we were talking about due to the way in which we had named them. 
We were using conventions of a music video such as we begin the video with a wide shot and as we get further on we go from wide, to mid, to close. This is so that the audience does not get disorientated and it means that if we switch from a shot of Jonty to a shot of the dancers, it is evident that that is what we've done. It also means that a shot of Jonty's hand will not then get confused and mistaken for one of the dancer's hands.