Music Video- Editing

In the AS thriller piece learning to edit was a long process, this time even with an updated software I felt like I had the knowledge to create a more creative and better edited piece of footage. The main issue that i'd never had before was that I had too much footage. The song is 4 minutes 19 seconds long this meant for the six sins/ scenes there should be about 43 seconds each. 


When I first began to edit I ignored the amount of time it was going to be and just concentrated on making the narrative of each scene work. This left me with 5 out of 6 scenes being an except able duration and just one scene Greed being considerably longer. Trying to edit this scene in a way that would bring back the balance to the piece was my biggest task. I attempted to do this by going through each clip and trying to cut down each one by a few seconds or milliseconds. This worked to a point, but then I realised that I needed to cut out a more dramatic amount of the narrative to make it work. When filming the shot I broke the scene down into 4 parts. Part 1 was the woman coming through the door and placing her shopping bags down. Part 2 was her walking over to the sofa and getting a drink. Part 3 was getting up to collect the envelopes then walking back to her seat. Part 4 was opening up the envelopes. Part 4 I sped up because the shots were over 40 seconds long just for two envelopes to be opened. 


The excess amount of film is much better than a lack of footage all together, it took about 3 hours of cutting milliseconds off all the clips but especially Greed because I was unable to cut any of the parts out without having a lack of a range of shots or the narrative of that scene not making sense. 


After getting it down to the right length, I got some non-media background people to give me feedback on how it looks, this is without music. I did this so then if I made a blatant error it could be fixed before adding the music. Once the music is added it is much more difficult to edit, so after correcting the non-media background criticisms i'll get a BTEC media student from the local college to look and see if he has any tips and can see any errors. Then the music will be applied and i'll be able to get the final audience feedback. 


Look at Music Video- Initial Feedback for how I conducted the focus group and the editing I did as a result of the feedback.