I found that in this short space of the A2 Year I have learnt a large amount about editing and filming and have realized it is something that I am actually really good at. This comes as a surprise to me because I did not essentially do much editing in my AS year however I created the music and was the actor in my thriller.
This year I took a lot of part in the actual filming of our music video, the lighting and actually taking a lot of time actually editing the video and inputting ideas (Me and Valeza practically lived in the edit suite). I learnt that with editing continuity is important even in music videos and that quick simple cuts are so effective when done exactly to the beat. Because we had such a heavy bass when the beat drops quickly and jumping to another shot it looked really professional and they complimented each other well.
Also I learnt how important editing actually is, when I look at our original footage and our actual video it makes us as a group feel very proud of what we had accomplished. In editing the brightness and contrast and adding our favourite special effect 'bad film' we saw how polished and sophisticated our clips actually became, this was because we made the lighting look really great and desaturating the colour making it black and white really exaggerated Valeza's features and made all our footage look ten times better. Using the mirror effect also benefited us.It was good that it suited well with the concept and feel of our video.
All footage can be made useful!! At first we were all apprehensive because we felt we may not have got enough significant footage to use for our music video. However we managed to get some random beautiful shots and could repeatedly use this in our video. Some shots that we were not originally planning to use, turned out to be really useful.
However a flaw in our approach to doing the filming of our music video was that we had not filmed enough base tracks, as we stopped recording half way through because we were put off by mistakes. Therefore in order to fix this we quickly went to Valeza's house and filmed two base tracks of the lip syncing. If we were to create our music video again we would have done more base tracks and relied less on the random shots we filmed throughout the day.
The cutting tool was really great because we were able to easily cut unnecessary footage quickly and it could allow us to cut our longer clips to the beat. This way we could delete little shots quickly and keep the best footage in our video. Also by making markers on the actual song we were allowed to maintain our edits in time to the beat, and made sure that our clips wouldn't change on an off beat.
Changing the paces of our clips also provided to be really handy because we used this heavily in our video. Mostly all our footage has been altered in its timing, however our favourite example of this is perhaps speeding up of the candle shots where Valeza is writing the words and the slowing down of the release of the bird.
Altogether I feel that as an individual my confidence around media equipment has grown as I became more used to the camera and comfortable about using it well. Also editing used to be a daunting task but I ended up really enjoying the whole process as I felt like I learnt more each time and feel really accomplished in completing our final music video.
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