Editing Session Six

Today was our final full editing session.We had no timing restrictions as we stayed after school, this meant that we could take our time and not have any pressure due to time restrictions and allowed us to edit a high quality video.

The first thing that I did was upload the footage from our final filming session to the computer, I did this by importing the media through the USB when I plugged my phone in onto the Mac. Once imported, we were able to choose which parts of the song we wanted to use the solo by Tavonga with. We decided that we would use these parts whenever the chorus came up as many other music videos do when the chorus is playing. We also decided that it would be shown in minority parts of the music video where it isn't the chorus but looked well. This was an extremely hard task to do as we had to match up the lyrics and the sound of the song to the visuals of Tavonga singing to make it match up and look like it is him singing it. As it was a very difficult job myself and Eboni took turns in deleting and cropping the clips making them adjusted to fit perfectly with the visuals. This was stressful as it had to be perfect as a couple of seconds can put off the whole visuals and wouldn't match up and so we zoomed in closely on a lot of the clips to get the accuracy. This matches up to Andrew Goodwin's theory of music video's which states that when the lyrics and the visuals match up it makes it easier for the audience to understand.

As all of the footage was placed in the right order from last editing session in preparation for this session it was easy to place in Tavonga's solo performance where we needed it - however, it wasn't easy as we had to sync the lyrics with the visuals. To do this, when I was editing, I turned down the diegetic music and then turned the volume of the non-diegetic music so that we could listen to where abouts in the song it is and then switch the volumes round to match it up. Once this was roughly done, it was easier as we were a few seconds in roughly and could then begin moving the clips forward or backwards to fit with the visuals. This has been the hardest bit of editing so far as it took lots of concentration and a long amount of time ( about and hour) to do a small task. However, once this had been done the video matched up perfectly and looked to the professional standard we were aiming for.

The final thing which we did was transitions which we left until last. We made sure to include transitions as if we hadn't, the whole video would have jumped between shots and therefore looked unprofessional. The two that we used the most were "cross-dissolve" and "fade to clear" as they looked professional and didn't take away too much of the audiences attention from the narrative of the video. We placed the transitions in the places where we thought the mood or the scene changed to allow the audience to follow the narrative more clearly and show that there is a change in mood or setting to cause little confusion. I did this by clicking the transition and dragging them in the relevant places which was a quick and effective job.