After gathering the extra film which we filmed during our double lesson last Monday, we then began editing what we had, and reordering it to go in time with the lyrics. Matching the lip syncing to the song in the background, for me as the main editor has been the hardest task, as this takes a lot of concerntration and a few goes before a complete match can be achieved.
There was an instrumental section in this song which I used a compilation of shots of Louise walking toward or looking into the camera as well as Louise staring out into space "deep in thought" to fill this time. Some of these shots were not filmed for this purpose, for instance, during the interlude of music there is a clip of Louise sitting in the tree looking out into space. this shot, originally was filmed while Louise waited to sing her verse, it was very short, so I slowed it down using Video FX to create a clip long enough to fill a few seconds of film. I thought this was very effective and was followed with clips similar to it in different locations. It gave the video some diversification, and definitely made the video more interesting. To see an artist in the same location for even 10 seconds, which in reality does not seem like a long period of time, in the world of music video's this is and this makes the video tedious and seem dragged out. I wanted many clips so that the interest of the viewer was ongoing, and the change of scenery or camera angle achieved this.
Antoher thing that I tried to acheive during my editing, was exchanging the clips in time with the beat of the music. This was so that the music and video clips flowed well together, almost to the point where you do not notice any sudden changes and the clips roll into eachother to create subtlety in the clip changes. This was something I had noticed when analysing other pop music videos during my planning and preparation stages. It is very subtle and almost unnoticable unless it is done wrong, and then it becomes obvious that soemthing does not look right.
I also added transitions in between clips to create some fluency. I consistently used the "wash in" transition. It was subtle and so the focus was not pulled away from the content of the video it just assisted the clip changes in rolling into one and other.
The editing went ahead very well, however, during one editing session, I did not save what I had done and the Apple Mac crashed. Unfortunately all work was lost and I used my own time to catch up again. This was very disheartening, but is almost an inevitability when working with IT and computers, something often goes wrong as it is not an entirely dependable source. However, I managed to catch up well as I now knew exactly what needed to be done and so this time round the process was not as long. One of my team members; Natasha was not present for much of the editing stages due to illness and other commitments and so I took it upon myself to do all of the editing for this video. I fel it was a great way of practicing and developing my skills for my final task. I have learnt a lot and will take this knowledge of iMovie HD along with me in my final peice.
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