Under and Over cranking and Test shoot

Today in class we studied under and over cranking which is filming the footage so that it is already either slowed down or sped up and this means when you change the frame rate during the edit you can get really smooth slow motion footage. I struggled to understand the concept at first but once I got hands on with a camera and had a go I picked it up quickly. We took the technique of over cranking and went and had a go at filming and editing a short bit of a music video as music videos are the main project we are working on at the moment. When filming to over crank you double the frame rate to 50 and then for over cranking half it to 12 as the standard frame rate is 25 frames per second. As a class we found difficulties when it came to lip syncing as the singer has to lip sync the song either twice as fast or twice as slow so that when the frame rate changed in the edit they're then lip syncing at normal speed and can be synced with the track. Once we had some footage we went back and started doing our own edits (see mine below) the first thing you have to do is put the frame rate of the edit to 50 just like you had to with the camera settings before shooting. I then synced the song with my video which takes a bit of precision to get perfect. My teacher then showed me how to add some effects like the bars at the top and bottom to make the video look more cinematic and professional and also how to make the footage black and white. If I was to use this technique for a client shoot which is very possible I might I would plan extensively the locations and what the band are wearing and also discuss weather we think the concept would work or not for their genre of music.