Today I have spent four hours focusing on post-production work for the constructuion of my music video. For the first hour of my work I focused solely on learning the conventions of the software, Adobe Premier, so that I would face minimal problems in the difficulties of editing my video footage further down the line. I was assisted by one of the I.T teachers who went through the software with me in steps to show me exactly how each tool is used and what I would need it for, including rough examples on some of the video files I had transferred from my SD card to the computer.
After this, I began to edit my footage. I began with the opening shots I had filmed for my music video and placed them in chronological order in the timeline. I then zoomed in to cut the clips where there were stings in the music to make the opening jumpy and create a more enticing arrangement of shots to intrugue the viewer. I deleted some shots that seemed repetitive or uneccessary to the video and slowed down some close ups by a maximum of 50%. This is because the music is slow with a sad feel to it, and the visuals were too fast to allow the viewer to fully appreciate this. I considered reversing some shots to add diversity to my opening, but decided against this in the interest of not confusing any viewers as this decision would likely have meant that the shots would have been crowded with too much happening in the visuals and would therefore not have matched the music.
After I was pleased with the construction of the opening, I placed my mastershot in the timeline and began to pick out snippets I liked from the shot. The issue I was faced with, which took me an hour and a half to get around, was that I had filmed my master shot three times with a few takes of different scenes in each. This meant that each shot had aspects I wished to include in my video, but each of the three videos as a whole would not have been useful as there were bloopers in each that would have spoiled the overall product. This required a lot of time to watch and rewatch each shot to choose all the parts I wished to keep, and delete all the unecessary snippets that threatened to ruin my product. I then brought in all the shot-reverse-shots I filmed and used them to break up the different parts of the master shots I decided to keep to make the video more interesting, meaning it flowed better as the over the shoulder shots were in time with the stings in the audio, meaning it was the perfect time to create cuts or transitions.
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