Editing (Day 10)

Today, we trimmed the rest of the performance shots together and inserted them into the various clips e.g. the pool scene. We also added some random, background filler shots to the gaps in the footage, such as snippets of flowers or the sky I filmed on my iPhone4 on a walk home, to fill out and complete the music video. This was ideal because it meant we had all the footage and could add the effects.

I also asked Kirsty if she could email the footage of the record player playing because although we had a shot of the record player already in Final Cut Pro, it didn't look very good as just a photo.

It looked much better when playing, and so, once downloaded, I bladed it with the blade tool into different sections which I interspersed with other shots, a technique I've developed through the music video and one I'm quite fond of. I then placed it at the end of the video, rather than at the beginning because I thought it looked better there. The end of the clip has the record player image blurring and so I added the Fade transition effect so that the clip blurs smoothly into the next one of the Soldier running home.

At the end of the lesson, I asked Sir if he would watch it through and tell me what we needed to improve it. He said that he'd do it tomorrow, as there wasn't much time now and that he'd write me a list.