Video Work: Lilygreen & Maguire – acoustic cover of ‘If I Fell’ by The Beatles
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This is another video I’ve edited together for Warner Bros. Records, this time for a new singer-songwriter double-act on their books, Lilygreen & Maguire. It’s a bit of a shame that the client chose to desaturate my cut and go for a black and white look, as the two cuts I submitted highlighted some of my best choice colour correction work to date.
The original footage was shot simultaneously on two different cameras, and the resulting footage required significant post-production tinkering in order to match up the two tones. The fixed-camera wide shots had a naturally warm, orange tone to them, whereas the roving close-ups had a paler, blue-green tinge to them. I provided cuts for each of these two wildly-different tones – hopefully I’ll be able to post some clips from both of these so you can see what I’m talking about.
One of the other challenges of this brief was editing footage from live performances to match a pre-recorded studio recording of the same song. This require careful time-distortion to ensure the visuals matched up with the audio, as well as co-ordinating clips taken from several performances so as to appear as just a single take.
