Editing Progression

Editing Process

The above screen shots are of my editing progression, there are shots of the various different tools and techniques I have used to create my edit. Also there is screen shots from the beginning of the existing music video ‘I don’t want to’ by HANA. I have taken inspiration from this video, my work is a pastiche of this video, as it imitates the style of the work, unlike a parody, and pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks the work that is being imitated.

I imported all my footage onto final cut pro, where I then began to edit the footage together by using various transitions. Once I selected a part of footage to edit I dragged it down to the timeline and began editing, the first thing I did to each selected piece of footage is stabilize it so that it will run smoothly. From the screen shots below it shows how I edited the effect of black and white onto certain pieces of footage. For transitions between shots the main transition effect I used was ‘Gaussian’ that slowly blurred out of one image to the next making a smooth transition. This transition is easily applied; firstly the footage is selected which the transition is going to be placed on, then from the effects toolbar (shown in the second screen shot) my selected effect is dragged onto the footage and then cropped to the specific duration needed.

For the opening sequence of my video I needed to include a title sequence introducing the artist and song, to do this I simply added text from the ‘Titles’ effect as shown in the screen shot. Then to choose the specific font I went to the effect information which is shown in the top right hand corner and selected font style , which then appeared with a drop down menu of various examples of different fonts available to use.

I also needed to edit the speed of certain clips of footage, as shown in one of my screen shots I customised speed, which allowed me to both set the speed and change direction to either forward of reverse. For my selected to piece of footage I kept the direction as forward but altered the speed to 65% slower than the original piece of footage. These screen shots are just of my opening sequence when I further edit my footage I am going to use more complex editing techniques to create effects such as overlay using footage from the green screen on top of other footage.