PRODUCTION: Editing 2

Part two of the editing involved much more intricate fine cuts than when we first began. This was because at first, clips were just thrown onto the timeline to see what shots work with what, how it works according to the music and generally to see what clips are useful that we can work with. After deciding on what shots we wanted, we continued to experiment with certain clips while still making sure the shots fit within the music, match with the following shot and is in sync with the lyrics.

Editing involves spontaneous decisions of which some work as brilliant ideas, and some fail. This is what we tried to do as spontaneous decisions can bring about work which looks great and that we never would have initially thought of. Although keeping to the storyboard we created for the music video, experimenting with various shots is what is needed to give our music video an edge.

As Nick had done a vast amount of work, Poppy and I began editing as well as choosing the clips to implement in the video. Poppy had already created a good base of which she deleted unnecessary shots on the timeline and left shots which fit within our storyboard. Below is a video showing me and Poppy discussing the shots with some useful input from Charon on how things are going.


We were fine tuning shots on the timeline along with following shots to just get a general taking on what we definitely want to keep and what we felt didn't work at all. As we had approximately 23 base tracks, choosing between each track was hard and required opinions from everybody. The girls talk about how our opinions may conflict but also what it can bring to the group and the final product.



While we worked on our video, did continuously asked people in the class or anyone in general to watch what we had done so far, what they liked/disliked and how it could be improved. This tactic while editing really helped us as it gave us boundaries on what people like to see and what negative thoughts people had on the edit so far. The constructive criticism we got allowed us to change things instantly and make sure we done things right the first time around and not near the finishing of our video.