Video Editing

Due to the late start in our filming, we won't have time to make a rough cut of our video with iMovie and then make our final video on Final Cut Express so we're using iMovie to produce our final video. We filmed each setting around 3 or 4 times to get different shots, for example when we filmed the bedroom scenes, we did a close up and a mid shot of her lying on the bed and a close up of her sat on the bed. This meant that when it came to editing, we had a lot of footage to choose from! As we could hear the music in the background of our filming, it made it easier for us to put together. We started from the beginning of the song and worked our way to the end, combing performance and narrative shots throughout. We'd select quite a long piece of footage and then once we'd put it onto the storyline we'd cut it shorter to make it consistent with the previous shot. Once we'd put a sequence together to fit the whole song, we applied the actual song to the storyline and blocked the audio from the original shots. Because we put the music on last, it meant we had to crop some parts of the video to sync with the lyrics. The last thing we did was add a tagline to the beginning and end of the video which gave information about the name of the song and the artist.