Starting to edit

Before we started editing the were somethings me and Neelam decide to take into account.
'Editing'
our footage might be great, but it'll only become a great video through editing. To do a good job we'll need patience, time and more patience. We still need to decide the 'feel' and pace of the video. Will it be made up of long sweeping shots, or quick sharp edits? Do we want to follow the mood of the song and edit to the music or do we want the video to contrast with the track?

The judicious use of the right effect can really set our video apart.

After we’ve done a rough edit me and neelam are going to discuss how it should be finished, but if 2 people sit round all trying to edit a video together a long process will become torturous and, almost inevitable, will end in falling outs so we have to be calm and respect each others opinions throughout the process. Taking each others opinions into account..

'Get the Right Software and Hardware'

The basic video software for Macs is iMovie and for the PC, Adobe's Premiere Elements is a good place to start. The more complex software we have available has given us more freedom and choice.We have college providing us with the software Final cut pro


'Be Creative'
There are many videos have we have seen on MTV that consist of the band playing in a club, with the lights flashing whilst the audience jump up and down? We are going to Try and think of something different when we make our video. Filming a Hollywood blockbuster on a shoestring budget will generally look crap! One of the most interesting videos I've seen recently was of the band playing in the back of a transit van while it went through a car wash – the only cost was the car wash fee. From this simple idea they made a interesting and quirky video that was premiered on MTV Europe.


Today we captured our footage onto the timeline and started some edits.Right now we have a rough idea of what order we want our shots to be in the music video. We also put the music up onto the computers so we can edit with the beat of the music which would make our music video as we put different shot lengths of time with different parts of the song..
We decided some shots were not good enough to use in our music video but we are happy with quite a lot of our filming them being the butterfly shot captured in Chester zoo, me on top of a
Arndale as an angle and the sunset.