Editing 14/10/10

Our editing began today and we started editing the first verse, we had the tools to do this as we had already filmed our shots at Epping Forest.

What did we edit?
There was approximately 2 hours worth of filming, so we used the razor tool to cut out any unwanted footage. This made it a lot easier when choosing the best scenes. To begin, we thought it would be easier if we matched the lip syncing to the words in the song (which we had dragged onto the audio line), we all had certain bits that we had sung so this part was fairly easy. As we had played the music along with us when filming our lip syncing was mostly spot on.

We wanted an establishing nature shot of the forest. We had filmed several shots but ended up going with a spinning shot of the forest (this was Sophie's idea) This shot was placed after the first bit of lip syncing. We also felt the shot went extremely well with the next shot of me up close and lip syncing, the story flowed and gave the audience a basic introductory. We looked through other nature shots but decided to use a shot which we had done accidently of the camera turning in the forest. This seemed to work perfectly giving the music video a fantastic pop opening.

This was the end of editing my verse, as it was very long we wanted to introduce the rest of the group and continue Emily and Joes storyline, therefore we moved onto Laura's verse, again this would be a lip syncing section and this made an easy start to introducing her. For Laura's opening line, we used two different shots but wanted them to flow, we used the razor tool to adjust when we wanted the first shot to end and the second shot to start. This caused quite a problem as the transition that we had done showed Laura with her eyes closed, we readjusted this and made the second shot longer.

What effects did we use in editing?

Reverse Play:
We used this effect in a way that would go unnoticeable if you were watching the video. In our second nature shot we chose to play this backwards as it looked far more effective. This was done by selecting the speed and duration button and then choosing reverse play.

Speed reduction:
We used speed reduction to slow down the spinning nature shot, this gave it a better timing to the music. We done this by selecting speed and duration and changing it from 100% to 50%.

Dip to black:
We used dip to black instead of cuts, this made the sequence flow better and was an alternative to using the same effects. We first use this just after my 'Missing You' close up just after I had finished singing. We also tried cross dissolve but thought dip to black was more effective.

Cross dissolve:
Cross dissolve was a great technique to use to soften transitions. We first used this for my lip synching part and the first nature shot, this enabled the shots to flow into one another and looked very effective. Cross dissolve was selected under shot transitions.