Production - Skills development

Although last year we used Final Cut Pro to edit our thriller openings. This year was quite different in the editing suite, I think it was a lot harder than last years thriller opening (as expected).  One major difference that I noticed was laying down the different base tracks which was really confusing but it got easier after a lot of practise.

I learned a lot about marking the base tracks to make editing much easier when it came to cutting to the beat as our music video has a rapid pace. As you can see in the image below, we had several markers. In conjunction with the markers, we also had a pen and paper at hand to write down which words in the song we cut to, which then helped us for the second half of the song as we aimed to mirror the first half with the second half of the song.

I learned how to manipulate shots to match them to the rapid beat that we have in our music video. I also learned how to include transitions, change the opacity of a shot, change the pace and fade in and out. I learned about choosing the most appropriate clips for the music video.