Saturday, 12 February 2011

Editing process

The overall editing process was fairly simple. From experience gained in AS level coursework, as well as this year’s animatic, I have a certain level of knowledge of using the iMovie software. The biggest difficulty I found was syncing the music to the mimed playing and singing, or the change of shot, that I tried to keep to the beat of the music. Whilst this was fairly simple, yet time consuming and intricate, during the editing of the rough cut, it was far more difficult to keep the lip-syncing in time. To remedy this, any replaced or edited shots were then cut to fit the original shot by the 0.1 of a second. However, this still made parts slightly out of time, so there was a certain amount of trial and error involved.
From the outset, I planned to include minimal transitions between shots. Although they can be a convention to music videos, this is mainly suited to pop music and r’n’b, not rock. I wanted to follow this convention, as I also planned for the video to be naturalistic, so flashy transitions would not fit the style at all. However, the effects supplied by iMovie proved very helpful to create a difference between the band clips and the teenagers. I was again inspired by the bleached band clips of the Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah,” to place a black and white effect on the clips of the band. However, to create a romantic, retrospective feel for the teenagers, I used the “Heat Wave” effect, which brightened the clips to almost a sepia effect. However, due to the bright sun of the original filming, this bleached out some of the details on the original shots, so I needed to change some of the settings. I could not seem to get this perfect however, so some of these editing shots I found noticeably darker. However, no one mentioned this during feedback, so this may be person over-analysis. No effects placed on the clips of singing, connoting the lyrics are a sentiment shared throughout both focuses of the video.
On the whole, the editing process I believe went a lot smoother and quicker due to not having to learn many more skills. However, if I were attempting to create a video of another genre, such as electronic or pop, this may have included further editing which would have been a much more difficult task.

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