Editing our Final Music Video

We are now on to our second attempt at editing our final music video. We previously watched over or rough cut commenting on the aspects that we liked, disliked, and ones that didn't work as well as we hoped. After reviewing our old footage, too our recent footage, we came to the conclusion that we can't use any of the previous footage that we had shot. Many reasons allowed us to come to this decision;

- Louise's clothing/make-up was different

- The location had changed

- The Mise-en-scene had also changed

- The footage we had previously recorded was also amateur compared to our new footage

We felt it best that we should record all our footage again to allow our music video to be of a high standard.

The Editing Process

As we had recorded our music video footage over a period of two days, we had two lots of footage to uploaded onto the apple macs. Below is day 1's footage, which is all of the narrative aspects of our music video.

Below is day 2's footage, which is all of the lip synching/performance based aspect our of music video.

You can clearly see the improvements from our rough cut as we have recorded a sufficient amount of footage for us to pick and choose want to include into our music video and won't have to repeat many of our shots to fill the 5 minute time period.

Black vs White

From the very beginning myself and my partner have always wanted to experiment with the use of black and white footage as we believe it will set the tone and mood we we're going for in our music video. Below is in image of how we edited the footage to black and white. I right clicked on the video, selected clip options, then selected effects and you can now see the list that came up. We selected black and white. Below the image I have included a video of the same clip, first shown in the colour it was recorded, then secondly in black and white so you are able to see the difference.

Adding The Footage

One of the problems that myself and my partner encountered when editing our music video involved the inclusion of our audio track. We weren't able to add all of the audio track, if we didn't have the correct amount of footage added onto the story board or else our audio track would get cut. To solve this problem, we added an extra long title sequence onto the end of our edited footage as shown by the picture below. This actually benefited us as it allowed us to see how much of the audio track was left that we needed to add footage for.

Precision Editing

Another aspect that I encountered upon editing our music video was precision editing. This allowed me to pinpoint the exact piece of the clip that was going to be used in as shown by the images below.

Narrative

On our first day of filming, although we had our storyboard and shooting script, we we're worried that we wouldn't have a secure amount of footage. We also felt that an audience wouldn't be able to understand our narrative so quickly concocted a understandable narrative. However when watching back the footage, I felt that the narrative was too much of a cliche, was predictable and didn't match the tone of the rest of our music video. We decided that the only footage that would be included was where Joe gave Louise the bracelet. The rest of the footage would not be included in the music video as we are confident that the narrative speaks for itself.