After my previous practice videos I have become very confident using iMovie HD, therefore I have taken on an active role in editing our music video. One member of my group was absent for the first day and I gladly took this opportunity to get on with doing the editing by myself. I got about one third of the video completed when I realised that there were some parts of the video which we did not have any film for. I did as much as I could and paid particular detail to matching the miming of my singer to the music of the song. This was often difficult and I found it took a few goes of splitting the clip and then putting little bits back in before it could be perfect. To find ways of elongating my clips I found myself browsing through the editing options and remembered that I could use a “slow motion” tool to do this. This created a brilliant effect when we see Louise looking into the camera walking along with her hand trailing along the wall behind her. This clip was originally filmed as a “filler” clip to be used if we did not have enough film to fill any part of the song, however it turned out to be a great scene in the video and fits in very well.
The editing can be extensive and takes a lot of your attention to complete successfully. I have put a lot of effort into the editing of this video so far and have been the main person within the group to do so. I am very happy to take care of much of the editing as I feel I am very competent in to this area and as I was absent for some of the planning and preparation lessons, I feel this should compensate for me not being there.
When we realised that there was not enough film for us to fill the entire song, we bought back in Louise, who plays Britney to do some more filming. However, our camera wouldn’t work and so we have re-scheduled a filming session for Monday 11th October during our double lesson.
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