Editing

My editing experience this year has been demanding. I have spent the majority of my time editing our video together and am determined to have the highest quality outcome of every single shot clearly shown in the final outcome. My overall aim is for every shot to be developed and made better through my editing intense and precise process. My goal is for anyone watching the music video on YouTube to be able to pause the video on any given shot at any time and to be impressed with the aesthetics and content of the video. The editing process for the shots with staring Lizzie and Sam was very intense, a lot of precise match on match editing had to be done. We also filmed on two different cameras which meant I had to scan through both memory cards to fill in gaps in the filming and choose the best shots to add to the final cut of the video. Editing the shots of Seb with neon face paint was a new and challenging experience as adjusting the levels to ensure the background stayed as pitch black as possible in hopes of bringing out the brightness of the face paint proved difficult as parts of Seb's face would turn darker and blend in with the background. The outcome of the intense editing the shots underwent paid off however as the neon face paint worked so well with the adjustments I made to the colour levels and orange tones in the shots. One of the hardest things to edit in the video was the overlaying shots of Luke and Ellie, to give a trippy and confusing effect on some of the shots we achieved whilst filming in Rochester (taking inspiration from similar shots in Tame Impala music videos) to add to this we had planned out a very intricate shot before we left for filming and it relied strongly on my editing once it was uploaded, using the best shots off of the memory card and both simple and advanced editing software at my disposal, I was able to achieve the outcome that Ellie and I desired when we set out for filming.