Editing Journal - Day 2

Day 2:

Today, after opening and re-watching what I have already edited of my music video, I decided where changes needed to be made and how I want the second half of it to look. I added the rest of my shots into the timeline in chronological order and evaluated which parts of which clips I intended to use, and set aside the ones I considered to add in if required.

The last 30-40 seconds of the music promo were what I began by editing as this was a manageable section to start with. Clips were filmed specifically for this ending which I had planned out beforehand and so I added the last shot in as well as the one before, of my main character running down the road. To make this shot more interesting I cut it into three sections. The first played as normal, then the middle part was reversed, and the third was a repetition of the first. This gave a nice effect that I found to be more interesting than playing the clip through fully as it was long and uninteresting.

After adding two important clips of close-ups of my characters and timing them to play where the music changes to become slower and with less instruments, I realised I had a thirty second gap either side of these clips that needed filling. By this stage I had use all footage I liked and so decided to repeat earlier clips of one of the character's walking, reverse it and use this small snippets to fill the gaps.

I then watched it over fully and asked my teacher for feedback, who suggested it may be a little repetitive and could be broken up with lyrics between some shots. I decided this would be an interesting idea to break up some of the more lengthy shots, and also decided that as the lyrics would be written in black font, to add a black and white filter over my shots. This also matches the other music videos by The Neighbourhood, meaning I will be continuing the theme they use.

Even after this there is still a space I need to fill, and so without wishing to repeat my clips and bore the viewers I have decided to shoot another scene that will make my video more interesting, and mean I can delete some of the more repetitive shots included in my first draft of my music promo.