Editing Continued

Over the past few days I have continued to spend a lot of time editing my music video. As it is only two minutes, I want to make sure that every single detail is perfect and well executed. 

So far, I have:

-Put majority of clips in order (trimmed/cut/edited colour)
-Added in transitions (cross fade)
-Edited flash back shots to old style black and white

Next time, I want to integrate my flash back shots with the present shots.

Here are some screenshots of some editing I have completed over the past few days:

Cross fade- barbed wire against shot of character sat against wall

Blur- as inspired by Ellie Goulding (blogpost on that can be viewed here)

Ellie Goulding- Music Video analysis of editing

Ellie Goulding- 'Anything Could Happen'

After watching this video, it has made it more clear to me about the kind of editing I want to do to my video. By this, I mean that I would definitely like to add slow motion as I found that in Ellie Goulding's video, it was a simple edit that was very effective (e.g. 0.05-0.07 seconds).   For my video, I could slow down the start of the film when she is walking towards the camera as it would bring attention to her and would convey the emotion and feeling better to the audience. It would also show the surroundings a bit clearer and indicate to the audience the type of situation the protagonist is in. 

What I also liked about the editing of Ellie Goulding's video was the blur they used at the start where Ellie just started singing. It is quite an interesting scene and the blur adds to the mystery and slight uncertainty. In terms of my video, I will definitely use this editing technique as it fits in perfectly with my concept and would work well with some of my clips.

As a whole, the transitions are very smooth and hardly noticeable which is exactly what I want to try to achieve with my video.

Editing

Today I transferred all of the filming I have done so far on to Serif - MoviePlusX5 in order to make a start on editing... 

After a while, I managed to remember how the software worked and completed:

- Uploading clips
- Cutting/trimming clips
- Adding effects (grey scale- black and white, desaturation)

I found it particularly challenging to get the timing of the clips exactly in time with the music. Today, as I was focusing on the start, I found it hard to ensure the character's eyes looked up to the camera just as the first beat dropped. I had to slow down the shot, then trim the shot in order to get it just right. Here is a screenshot of the close up:

Screen shot

Next time, I want to continue sorting the clips into the correct order, and trimming them in order to fit with the music.