Editing

To edit our music video we used an apple based software called iMovie. This is a basic editing software that allows you to cut clips, change clip colouring and insert transitions etc. We started editing our music video on Monday 10th October and we had the first draft completed Friday 21st October, with some further alterations taking place after half term that made our final music video. 

When we started editing our aim was to keep as close to the storyboard as possible as we liked our original idea, but quickly found that this was difficult to do as during the filming process we had changed some of the camera angles and props, such as the dice changing to the cards. As well as this due to the windy conditions some of the clips had to be removed because of the poor quality or cut to make them shorter. 

Over the editing period we had a number of technical difficulties. The first issue that arose was that some of our footage would not upload onto the Mac as it said the file type was not compatible. We managed to solve this problem by uploading the footage via iMovie instead of straight to the Mac. 

Our second issue over the editing period was that on numerous occasions the Mac would freeze whilst we were editing. To resolve this issue originally we had to switch the Mac off by the plug and reboot it again. This caused us to have to waste a lot of time as in some lessons we would have to reboot the system 3-4 times. After a while this technique stopped working and we were unable to edit at all. To try and save our work from being lost we duplicated the file so that we would have a back up. This worked and we were then able to edit without the computer crashing and at a quicker pace. 

OUR PROCESS! 

1. Firstly, when we started editing we had to upload the footage from the SD cards onto the computer and created a new project. 

2. We the placed the audio file into iMove, so that we could place the clips roughly in to correct area according to the storyboard. Once the clips were in the correct space we would start to cut them down to the correct length. 

3. After we had got an idea of the clip timings, we started to insert our transition. An example of this is the fade transition between each clip of the dying flowers. For the rest of the clips we mainly used straight cuts to emphasise the different transitions when they appeared. 

The roses dying

4. When we were happy with the clips lengths and transitions, we decided to add in our titles in the font Luna from dafont.com 

5. We then added some other final touches, such as colour corrections and zooming. As well as ensuring that the clips were correctly placed. Especially the ones where Chelsea lip synced.

6. When we were happy with the product we exported it onto my memory stick so that it could be uploaded to YouTube.