Editing My Music Video

This screenshot shows how I decided to present the title in the final cut of my music video. I wanted the name of the song to appear before the name of the singer, especially as it is a cover. I like how the letters blur both before they appear and disappear. It is a nice way to transition into the next shot, and I think that it works nicely with the style of font that I have chosen to use.

This screenshot shows the first moment of lip-syncing in my music video. Editing this was challenging because I had to make sure that it was precisely in time, but it was so easy to be out by only one or two frames. This was frustrating, but the more I worked on fitting the filmed work with the audio soundtrack, the easier it became to do.

This screenshot shows the transition that I finally decided to use to show a change between present and past events. This effect is called a "zoom and pan" and I use it more than once in the final cut of my music video. Experimenting with other transitions as I edited my footage, I realised that I also liked the "zoom" but think it looked better with a "pan" as well. The radial transition effect distorted my footage too much, so this is another reason that I chose the transition that I did.

This screenshot shows me working out how to adjust the opacity of the shots on Final Cut Pro. I wanted to overlay the footage of my dancers, and so to do this I had to lower the opacity of one piece of the footage before putting it on top of another piece of footage. This was relatively easy to do, I just had to experiment with how opaque I wanted different moments of the dance to be. I found that once or twice the footage looked too faint, so I increased the opacity, but then I also had to decrease the opacity if one of the shots looked to intense in comparison to the other.