Since we only have two more settings to film for our music video, we decided that we would start editing as soon as possible with the footage that we had. Becca is the main editor within our group but we will always have input with what the video will look like in terms of effects and transitions.
We decided to add all clips and footage that we have onto our FinalCut document so we know that we have a lot more to work with and what footage wouldn't be as good to use. With some clips we would use them more than once but change the filters and speed if we wanted to make it look different, also this would avoid our video becoming too repetitive.
We chose to crop some of our clips because we did not need the whole thing, we wasn't sure how to do this so we researched how to, we now know how to do it so this will be very useful throughout the editing process. With the balloon popping clips we decided that we wanted to play around with the colours of the powder paint coming out of the balloon, in the image shown the powder paint is blue but it was originally green, so we moved the colour charts around to get the right shade of blue that we wanted. This will again allows our video to be less repetitive just buy changing the colour of powder paint.
When changing something to our video it was important that we rendered the whole video so we didn't lose any footage when we played it back at the end of lesson, it was also crucial to save our work every so often and at the end of the lesson so we didn't lose our video completely. In the image on the left you can see the video being rendered but also that we have placed two clips on top of each other to create a faded effect, so the powder paint footage would be faded, behind the clip of Becca in front of a white background. This allows us to create a dramatic effect with the colour and impact of the powder paint, but also creating contrast, which is one of our main aims throughout the video, because we feel that contrast is a good way to create a dramatic effect.
We decided that we wanted to do almost a split screen for our video to highlight the contrasting colours that we chose to use for our setting and costumes. The shots of Becca and Viki were shot separately in font of the different backgrounds so when we wanted to place them together we had to crop both shots, as if it was a simple image, and then place them on top of each other in the correct places so that they were equal width to show a back to back effect. We then just had to make sure that the lip syncing was in time with the song and that both girls were lip syncing the lyrics at the exact same time.
When thinking about how to begin and end our video we wasn't sure how to go about it, we knew that we wanted to use the shots that we filmed of the word 'Louder' spelt out in glow sticks but we didn't know how to go about filling the bits of the song that we didn't have footage for. So to experiment we decided to use clips where Becca and Viki were acting quite natural e.g. laughing so we were able to fill in any bits of the song that did not yet have footage. This proved very helpful as we were getting very close to our dead line and Viki was not in school for us to film any extra shots, so the spare shots that we had from filming the first time came in handy for filling any empty space.
When it came to the end of our editing process we made sure that all of our shots were in the right place and the lip syncing was in time with the song. We rendered the whole thing for the final time, saved it and then exported it using QuickTime Movie to make it into a movie file. We would then begin to upload our music video onto social media websites (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) and onto YouTube to gain audience feedback.
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