Editing The Music Video - 2

After we recorded footage in a span of 2 days, we were back once again to edit our music video for the second time. The second time around wasn't as difficult because in our first attempt to edit we had used markers to mark all the beats in the song. This had helped us in our 2nd day of editing as it laid out the guidelines on how we should edit the rest of our music video, according to our storyboard and our animatic.

In addition to that, we now had more access to a larger quantity of footage enabling us to fill in large amounts of gaps, allowing us to edit to a higher quality. As a result, we were able to be more creative and even attempt to try and add some effects with what we had currently edited. For example, we had messed around with using transition effects like dip to black to try and split one scene of the music video to another. 

Having more of the music video edited, provided me and Laura with more freedom to try and make our own effects to reflect our theme and genre of rebellion. To do this we looked at and tried several effects however we found that the brightness and contrast effect would allow us to do that. In turn, we altered and changed it's options so that we could create and save a preset of that effect, calling it the Rebel effect. Below is an example of what the original footage looks like and what it looks like after applying it. 

However not all our footage were the same in terms of it's brightness and contrast, so we had to manually alter those in accordance with the other clips to help with effectiveness of continuity and cinematography. 

In conclusion, that's all we basically did on our second day of editing. We were able to make a significant amount of progress but we were still a large distant away from finishing. However thanks to last years project we were able to do it more efficiently knowing the basics of what to do and not to do.