Editing

Yesterday me and Ian continued to edit our music video, however we were limited with time and after eventually seeking out a camera to enable us to upload our footage, we could only use about 35 minutes to edit our video.

After uploading further footage which we filmed around school, me and Ian were pleased with the shots which we achieved. The 'locker' sequence, which involves me opening my locker to find a romantic teddy bear from Ian within the music video, has worked extremely well. We filmed this sequence from 4 different angles to allow us diversity and to also reflect the typical variation of shots within music videos. To ensure that our music video coincides with the sound of the music and portrays the image we want, it is crucial that me and Ian are precise with our editing. I thought it best to use all 4 of the angles we filmed to create the locker sequence however Ian felt this would cause our video to be too jumpy and quick. To overcome this, we slowed the speed of the clips down from 100% to 85%, this gave a slower effect without it being too obvious, allowing the character's actions to seem natural.

As we were only able to edit for 35 minutes, me and Ian only managed to edit 9 seconds worth of footage together, however I feel this is one of the more dynamic sequences within our music video as it uses 4 different angles including hand held to reveal the character's point of view.

Whilst editing yesterday, I felt that me and Ian have quite a bit more filming to do. The 9 seconds we edited took around one hour to film, proving that our technique of filming the same actions from different angles is proving to be extremely time consuming. To overcome this, me and Ian are using more of our time within school to edit, and are using time out of school and lunchtimes to focus on the creation of our ancillary tasks. Although very time consuming, I feel the technique of filming from a variety of angles gives our video a different edge and will keep the audience engaged