Editing/Final Filming

We started editting the video as soon as we finished the filming in the field to get the opening scene successfully synced in time with the lip singing and the lyrics. We got the first 30 seconds done within 2 hours of filming it. I feel this was a very good start and shows the initative we planned to show for our final production. We then filming the rest of the of the music video within a week with many different shots on different locations, such as the singer's house and the town centre.

We decided to get the editting done as quickly as we could after we did the filming as we could get it all done propperly, we made this decision because of past projects when we didnt make the deadline we wanted to make sure we finished within a week before it so we could look to improve it in any way possible.

We used the iMacs 'iMovie' feature to edit our music video, we have used these numerous times before in smaller projects for media so we knew how to use them. We had a look at the different transitions and different effects we could apply to our video and then looked at the clips to decide whereabouts we could apply what effects and what would look the best and fit in the most.

The biggest problem we came across when editting was that we couldn't time the video with the sound to make it look like our actor was singing, this problem has been a major problem in the past with other videos but didn't arise too much and was easily solved with trial and error problem solving by deleting small bits of film until it linked in correctly. Another problem we had was that sometimes at the end of a line the film wasnt long enough to link onto the next line, so we used the effects avaliable on iMovie to either make the clip slower at one point or to have a transition that made it longer.

The effects we used included black and white, slow motion, fast motion, reverse film and many different transitions. We used a very wide variety of effects at our disposal to make our video as professional as possible. We used black and white film to represent the difference between the present and the past, also to seperate the performance clips and the narative clips.