Editing

Post-filming, we arrived Tuesday morning with the school camera we'd used in tow.

Since we'd missed out on filming on the Friday of half term with Eliot due to unavailability, Kirsty, Phoebe and Eliot took one of the school's cameras and went out to film the bus stop scenes and a few more couple-shots. While they were doing that, I imported the footage from the camcorder onto Final Cut Pro. I only had one out of the two cameras available as Kirsty hadn't brought her one from home, so with the footage I had, I got to work editing.

The first move was to import and drag the music track into the editing section.

It was clear from when I was looking through the footage that I was missing a lot of what we needed which was on the other camera. However, I had the clips of Eliot running down the road and arriving at the house, planned for the ending of the music video, which we'd filmed on the Saturday. With this in mind, I grabbed those clips and started editing the different shots of him together for the ending of the music video. I watched the clips first, then trimmed them and matched them up so that the cuts from shot to shot were in time with each other e.g. as he turned a corner into the house and the camera switched from his back to his front.

Then the challenge came of having to set the cuts of the clips to music. To do this, I closed  my eyes and listened solely to the music, pressing the 'M' button which marked on the track the beat I wanted to cut to various clips on. Using these as guidelines, I positioned and trimmed the clips accordingly, completing my first sequence of shots placed at the end of the music video.