EDITING PROCESS: DRAFT 1

The first draft of my music video is now finished and I am ready to screen it to an audience in order to receive feedback. Once I had imported all of my clips I sorted them into bins (left) so it was easier to find clips when editing. There was a slight technical problem where some of my clips imported twice (hence why I have so many). After I sorted them into bins I began editing the narrative parts of the video:

This is my timeline with the narrative parts edited. It took a few hours edit down and line the clips up exactly to where I had planned for them to go. There were a few parts I had to swap around or cut due to timing issues. I had to make the part where Heather is getting ready slightly shorter as there wasn't enough time to include the full duration of every shot. I'm particularly pleased with how the shots turned out where the still image converts to a moving image. I used a cross dissolve transition effect which blurs and blends the picture into the video well. To make this transition more visually appealing I had to increase the brightness of some of the still images as they were quite dark after filming outside. I'm also pleased with how the ending turned out, especially the birds eye view shot of Heather laying on the ground. I added a fade to black at the end after the tablets as I thought this looked better than the video suddenly ending. This fade has also been seen in many of the music videos that I analysed when I was doing my music video research. 

Once the narrative parts were finished I added a new video track for the performance parts. Essentially, I decided to have a performance part to my video as many artists with a similar genre included a narrative and performance aspect to their video. I spent another few hours lining up the audio of the clips and the music so the lip syncing looked correct. Overall, I'm happy with how these shots turned out once edited but I will be gaining some audience feedback as to which video overlay to add onto them. Currently I think the jump between the narrative clips and the performance clips is too different and looks odd, so I think adding an overlay will help this jump.

Before I gain audience feedback I will construct a questionnaire for people to fill out as they watch it.