Editing our final video

During editing our final video, Sam and I thought it would be interesting to add a montage of images of both relationships that are portrayed in the narrative. This then makes it clear for the audience to see how the main singer and his girlfriends relationship has changed.



This was a difficult task as we had to fit 6 images into a short space of time, but still allow enough time for the audience to see the characters clearly. This was a different approach and added an 'edge' onto the video.



Another skill Sam and I gained from editing our project was the use of overlapping of shots. The feedback we received was to include more live performance. We did not have enough time to re film this shot so we filmed Sam singing in front of a green screen.



We then blacked out the background and edited the transparency, we could then over lap the two shots as the audience can then see the singer in the foreground and with the crowd dancing behind him.





A problem that Sam and I encountered during our editing process was that we did not shoot all our shots in wide screen. I did not notice this until the final stages of editing. However, we discovered that we could stretch the image from each corner. We were unsure about this technique as we didn't want this to hinder the quality of our video.


We had to find the correct size of which stretched the image equally. We found that the measurements were -119 and 839.

During the live performance, Sam and I noticed that we did not have many close up shots of the band members whilst playing. As a result of this, Sam and I picked a shot which included the guitarist (Toby) we edited the shot as we cropped the other members out of the shot. This looked effective as the black column on the right added a different edge to a regular shot which fills the screen.



This did not distort the quality of the image or change the band member in any way. We also repeated this but cropped the shot from the the other side to add variation to the sequence.

A very popular shot that Sam and I created during editing our sequence was the use of slow motion during the shot walking past Sam. This was a risk as we wanted a quick cutting sequence - as the music was relatively fast. We thought that maybe by slowing the shot down, it could look out of sync. We only used this technique in one shot.





Throughout our music video, Sam and I have used our editing skills to change the shots to black and white. This then symbolises the past. We did this by using the effects toolbar down the left hand side of the programme.



We selected the black and white effect and dragged it over the clip we wanted to edit. This was then on the effects toolbar of the clip. We could then edit the darkness of the black and white balance. This was an efficient way of varying our style of shots.

At the end of our sequence, we wanted the final knock on the door to coincide with the final beat on the guitar as Sam waits at the girlfriend's house for her response. This resulted in allowing around 3 seconds at the end and a quick paced cutting sequence to fit in all the shots.

This was easily identified as the music sound bar made it obvious when the music stops suddenly.

The editing process was generally straight forward as we had the editing experience from last year during the course. However Sam and I have used more conventions and effects to improve the quality of our final music video.
Written by Hollie