A2 Music Video: Editing; Part Two

This time we uploaded the new footage; entering the school, the tie coming off, the office scene and the part where Chris walks from the stairs and exits the house. Gain, we removed the bad takes from the rushes and chose our favourite takes.

Because we have gotten rid of the garden scene, we had to re-sync some of our edited footage to the music. This didn't take long though. We replaced the shots where Chris left the house and added the shots of his tie coming off. Then we matched the tracking shots to the music it had been moved to. We feel that it has worked out better than before and seems look more natural at the place of song it is at. This was done using the cut tool.

Editing the office scene was a little more challenging, once we had placed all the shots to the music and had him enter the office. We were faced with making the CCTV look real. To help us, we had a look at some existing CCTV footage:

From these two images, it is noticeable that a typical convention is the date and time along either the top or bottom. So we decided to superimpose a date over the action. (Chris walking into the office and at his desk.) We also liked the fact that the image on the left was in black and white, but they both also looked a bit grainy. To achieve this, we added the effects of Black and White, but also increased the noise in the images. We feel that this has worked effectively. The reason for using a CCTV was to catch Chris enjoying the music he was listening to for added humour.

The next part we edited was the paper transition. Using the cut tool we placed together the show to Chris throwing the paper with the shot of him playing the guitar. To make the paper fall over the lens smoothly, we placed a cut as son as the screen was covered in the paper throw part then deleted the end of it. Then we place a cut just as soon as the paper leaves the lens on the guitar part. This meant when it played, it looked as though the paper had fallen.

The final parts we edited were simple cuts and matching the action to the music. We inter cut the singing with the guitar playing. We also inter cut our special appearances with the final guitar parts. We then made sure that everything was as perfectly synced as possible.

For the finishing touches, we selected a default title from the programme and adjusted its positioning and length of appearance. We also added the transition fade from black at the beginning, and fade to black at the end. This finishes up the music video nicely.

We then exported the music video. :)