Editing

I have left blogging about editing to the last minute as it is the longest process of the whole project. I’ve had so much fun doing the editing process. The three of us worked well together and we had lots of creative ideas. We started editing as soon as we did our first day of filming back in November. We did encounter a few problems when editing for example where the song is quite slow and emotional it was hard to get a good balance of slow and sad shots that captured the lead male’s emotion with short shots with lots of movement to make it interesting for the audience. I think the narrative helped with this, the slow shots were going to be of Jamie and then the fast handheld shots of the female running. I think the editing is very basic so that it shows the raw emotion and realistic side to the video. However every shots needed movement which we did, I soon started to realise how much better this made the video. We had the black and white Idea for the flashbacks right at the start, with one of the flashbacks we was going to make the lead females umbrella red however we realised we would have to do that more than one to make it a motif. We do have one editing motif however and that is a three way split screen which we used three times. By doing the split screens we was able to make the video more interesting and make the tempo faster, it also helped show the narrative better. One of my favourite parts of the video is the ending, the ending there is very basic but looks very effective. All we did was took two shots and faded them into each other using key frames.