Last Day of Editing !!!

These print screens were taken during the course of our editing today. We have encountered a few problems with editing today but we have managed to sort it out! Firstly, the night shots were really weak as the cuts were not to the beat and we were struggling to find the right footage to use. I edited the night shots twice but we still found that it was ineffective and weak compared to our day shots. Secondly, the ending was also seen as weak as it didn't portray a sense of finality to the audience. Lastly, we still had an introduction to produce...

However, after talking to Lousia about the weaknesses of the our music video we realised what the causes to our problems were. Even after re-editing the night shots again which were all cut correctly to the beat, we still lacked something. Luckily, Lousia was able to point out that the problem wasn't the editing but it was our choice of footage. The build up to 'overload' lacked movement and it didn't mirror the pace and movement of the day shots. As a result we went over all the footage that we had and realised that there were actually loads that we didn't use but could have used. Therefore, I re-selected the footage which had more movement and incorporated into the night shots.

For the second attempt to edit the night shots I included a lot footage from the base track which was an extreme close up of Jame's mouth. However, this was a big issues because most of the time, female artists use extreme close ups of their mouth and not male artists. Therefore, I only kept a couple of shots which showed James'.

After that, we managed to produce a introduction and conclusion to our music video that really pulled the whole thing together. The video introduces James from the back with a mid shot and concludes with a pan of James from the back too.

We decided not to use any video filters as we thought that it was necessary since we have already established the transitioning from day to night in our music video.

Lastly, to enhance the continuity of our music video we added another heavily edited shot through the build up to 'overload' with the falling shot. As well as this, we changed the first shot we used straight after the transition from day to night to a shot in the green screen to show to the audience clearly that we are introducing a new setting.