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.

Rough Cut - Take Me To Church Music Video

This is the first rough cut of my music video. I have used Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to complete it, however unfortunately during the process of rendering my work it appears that the file has become corrupted. This means that the quality is not very good and that there are shaky movements with the camera which should not be there and are not there in my original footage. I am please with the filters and effects, but after speaking to my teacher and trying different solutions, it looks as though I am going to have to restart editing from scratch. This is upsetting as I have worked really hard on this first edit, and it is very frustrating as there is nothing I can do about it. Still, plus et en vous, is my school motto and I love a challenge!

Thoughts On Filming

Filming My Music Video

These photos show me filming on different days in different locations. I tried to use a variety of shots as planned, and made sure to follow my story board carefully as I filmed each scene. I did make use of the tripod borrowed from the media department, but I also hand held the camera to experiment with what looked better for different parts of my video.  

The photo above shows me at the entrance to the grave yard and how I used the wall to my advantage, balancing the camera on it and angling it to ensure that I filmed the shot that I wanted with the gate.

The photo above shows me standing on a low wall to get the birds eye view shot that was part of my storyboard. I had to hand hold the camera as there was no way that I could use the tripod without ground to place it on.

The photo above shows me adjusting the height of the tripod outside the little church. Even with the legs of the tripod fully extended it was still not quite tall enough for my intended shot, so I had to make it a little higher adjusting and extending the stand.

The photo above shows me inside the Michael Kirk adjusting the angle of the camera on the tripod. The floor was tiled and so provided a nice smooth base, so the camera was level and not at all uneven when filming which was good.

The photo above shows me making use of another hand held shot inside the little church. As it got darker inside the Michael Kirk, I had to turn on the lights for parts of my filming so that it was not too dark. This added a nice warmth to some of my shots which worked well.