Editing.

Editing
In this blog I am going to show the editing that I did for my music video and how it effected my video and the steps that I took.

To edit my music video I used iMovie, this was the same as I used last year although it was updated this year so it was different, to get used to the new soft wear I experimented with a different video.

This is the stages of editing that I did:

After uploading the footage onto iMovie I had to upload the song that I wanted to use, the song royals was already in my music library therefore I just imported the track on to the video, the green lines that are on the bottom of the screen-shot are the track, by having the track here it makes is easier to see where I need to put the footage for the lip-syncing.

 All the footage that I took I put in the "keeping" section of the iMovie, by doing this I can see all the footage and see what would look best in different parts of the song, it also allows me to change the parts of the song I already have put into the video. Having the time of the song also allows me to see how long I have left of footage, and a back up copy if anything goes wrong.

For this part of the editing I used the adjusting tool to put one part of film layered over the top of the other part of filming. I then slowed the horse galloping down and faded the bottom layer so you could see the horse galloping clearly but also see the actress singing clearly.  

 For this part I used the strong beat and worked with it to add in black edits and also different parts of filming.

At the end of my video I didn't know what to do, so to add to the effect and have a smooth ending I had my actress run into the sea, then the horse and a fade out to black transition. This worked very well, fitted into the attitude of the song and video. 

 These are the different transitions, I used the Cross fade, fade to black, fade to white and cross blur. By using these to move into the other clips it made my video run a lot smoother. I found that if the colours where very different on each clip then it would look jumpy and unprofessional so I put the transitions in to make the video run well and have an edge.

This is the adjustment tool, by using this I can take the sound off the original clip and make sure the song doesn't effect the video. I can also take the colour away from the clip, to make it black and white I can also dim and make the clip brighter. After layering the clip over one another I can also fade one of the clips and make the other clip stronger. It allows me to put different effects on the video to make it dream like or many other effects. The only effects that I used where the dream effect and a grainy old-fashioned wash over the whole video to set the scene.