Editing to the beat

This video was edited by firstly adding markers in accordance and sync with the music of the music video. As you can see I have placed a large quantity of them and all of them are placed on a certain beat or change in music. These markers are vital as they help to see where about's I am supposed to place different shots and at what length until another shot takes over.

After adding the markers I then began to look at all of the footage that I had available to me and through my imagination I then began planning on how I would place each footage based on the beat of the music. I previewed all of this footage using the preview window on the left hand side of Abobe Premiere Pro

As you can see on the picture on the left. I started placing clips just before the beats. I did this because the clips I had chosen only fit to the beat with the last movement that they had made.

For example landing a flip in sync with the beat or posing on the beat.

On this window you can see me watching all the clips on the other window opposite the preview window. Within the window I was able to see all the clips which I had compiled and put together allowing me to see what effect adding that clip at the time and area did to match with the beat of the music video.

In the image above I have edited at a much higher detail trying to match the clip exactly with the beat however based on how I wanted to edit the video to the music I found myself running out of time on some of my clips. As a result I used the clip again and placed it back but at a time where it would seem that the clip had left of. The clip I am talking about is the clip with the shark driving the car above and I had used this clip twice so as to create the illusion that it continued for longer by also adding a separate clip in between in sync with the beat. 

Later on my editing became less intense however this was because the music also slowed down in speed making my editing and clips longer in size.

The final thing I did to edit to the beat, was add a split screen which worked well with the clips I had as well as the music video. In this process I used the basketball clips and one of those clips was the shark defending. I had made the specific clip a split screen overlaid on top of the tiger who was trying to score so as to show both perspectives within the music video.