Screenshot Editing Unit 6

Screenshot 1; The Start

Here we have my first shot for my editing process, I like to do a three step process with this, the start. middle and end. Here is the start, as you can see I have started putting a few clips together, which are all the first segment of my music video. Here the director wanted a corny lame dance where one guy was trying to get the party starting but the others where just not bothered. You can also see that I already have 4 different audios being used. One if the first “Sexy and I Know It” song, the other is a record scratch, the other is a heaven sounding track for when “Usher” opens the door in a silhouette and then finally of course there’s the Usher – Yeah! song.

My thoughts at this point and the image of the music video in my head was that I wanted it to be fast paces with quite a lot of fast cuts too, but for it to not just rely on that, to make sure people get longer glimpses of the actor, lighting and camera movement.

Screenshot 2; The Middle

From this second image we have the middle process of editing. if you look closely you can see a lot of cuts and small boxes for a lot of clips, from what I said in the start I wanted this to be fast paced with a lot of cuts, but wanted it to not be too much – which I tried to keep to my word here. You can see I also have a top layer for one clip around the start which is actually a duplicated clip for the blur out of the silhouette scene, the doors had “do not open” written on them so I blurred them out.

Screenshot 3; The End 

For the final picture, it’s basically the same as the second one but with a lot more clips involved, which again, is keeping to my word of fast cuts. You can also see a lot of black spaces between them and that is for part of the song when a certain beat drops to add more effect. For the end of the chorus I wanted it to very quickly cut into black while it’s into the beat to just make it stand out a little bit more.

If I were to redo this video again, I would mess around with the colour grading more, I felt like I could’ve made the colours stand out more than they already do but because the song is 4 minutes long and the song is very fast paced, the editing process had to be that which makes it harder. If I were to redo this I would find more time to edit and plan better than previous.

I would also like to mess around with any special effects that would somehow work their way into this music video, not sure what I could do with it but just experimenting with all types of special effects to bring it more attention.