Editing Process

Editing Process

In the editing process for our music video we used the professional editing program Final Cut Express that allowed us to do many things including the easy uploading process of video clips and video-audio manipulation that covers sound transitions, colour correction and conversion to a Quicktime file for easy viewing. Over time we gathered quite a lot of clips that we had filmed and slowly pieced them together on the timeline.

On of the many effects we included was the colour corrector that we added to many clips to make them look more interesting and to appeal to our target audience more:

This is probably our most anticipated shot of the music video. To achieve this we put two of same clip on the timeline and turned one black and white and the other we put a chroma key effect on it to make everything except the subject (the main character) their natural colour. We made the character black and white whilst the elevator interior remains green.

Within our final edit it is made up of a lot of elements including video and audio clips and the song track and sound effects/transitions. This all combines to give a professional piece of work that has had many hours spent on getting perfect and up to A-level standard.

With our music video there have been many edits and cuts that we have worked through to either try certain things or to see how the video editing process has progressed. Looking at the original and first edit, a lot has changed and decisions have been slowly made to improve certain elements including re-filming some things and re-arranging clips so they look better.

We tried many effects in our video including triple layering clips to achieve a good viewing experience. The below compilation is a combination of three separate clips, all featuring similar action that is throwing paper in the air and slowing it down on the edit. The result, originally tried as a test effect, was in the end good as it turned out to look good for the sequence in the particular part of the song towards the end where our main character releases a vast amount of energy and essentially 'feels good' for doing it, reinforcing the very concept of our video and what we want to portray to the audience.

Our video features three main people that is the lead singer/performer, the main character and his boss. The balance between the main character and the singer was heavily maintained through the video and we made sure that they were able to connect with the audience. The boss only has a small part so it may be hard for the audience to grasp his role as the person who receives the letter of resignation from the main character. Also important in the edit is considering the ordering of events as we tell a narrative story as well as featuring performance based elements.

The main character is shown in the intro on top of a car park and we lead the audience to think he might be jumping off and essentially ending his life. However through the edit we see him on a journey and the audience is made to believe that he quits his job and wants to be a free person to do what he wants. This is in fact true as we go back to the rooftop in the ending to show the characters journey and the audience expecting to see him jump. In the edit we make the ending similar to the intro to reinforce the story to the audience and show him drop his letter of resignation and walk off into the sunset as it were to start a new life.