Editing

me and my partner have just recently finished editing and alternated time on the laptop where both myself and my partner took it in turns to edit, sometimes we had disagreements but we would both edit that part and decide whose was better. We looked at previous assignments and asked for help with some of the band footage as the background wasn't dark enough for us. We were fortunate enough to get feedback from other media students to drop the brightness and slightly increase contrast to give a more live raw feel to the band and decrease the backgrounds brightness. Looking at other music videos with how they have cut and fitted the story in with the music was important. Also by fitting the instruments with the timing of the song and making sure that it was the correct time for that instrument to begin playing. We are now just fitting the titles for our media video and also burning to disc, the following music videos are the ones researched and what i have gained from watching them.

Bloc Party Banquet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5Li08_ie8

We tried to record many angles similar to the banquet video but our equipment wasn't as good nore was the resources available but we have been editing in similar ways by making quick, fast and straight cuts to keep the tempo of the song going fairly fast. The only transitions that were used was "overlap" and this was in our story section of the music video.

We did try having the band footage in black and white but due to the quality of the camera and the movement from the band shots there was alot of blur motivation and didnt look professional enough to us.

Arctic Monkeys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEukS2YN9B8

This is the original music video for the song that we are doing. It is a story where a girl is desperate for a man and try extreme lengths to get one. We took this idea and changed it to where a main cannot decided what girl he wants and the story unfolds during the video.

There are alot of straight cuts in this music video to ensure the tempo and during the long shots that are in there, there are right to left push tranisitions and alot of "Flashes" to create a similar effect to an instant fade in. We have used many straight cuts in our music video similar to the original and instead of the few push transitions we used "overlap"