EDITING PROCESS

EDITING PROCESS

 

To Edit my A2 Music Video, I used Adobe Premiere Pro, which I used in my AS work to create the opening of my Horror film ‘PLAY’. I decided to use this again as I am familiar with the software and will be able to explore it further than I did previously.
I also chose to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit instead of any other software because I was able to access Adobe Premiere Pro from home, meaning that I could avoid problems such as time limits and storage limits that I had previously encountered when using the Sixth Form computers.

 

The first thing that I needed to do when editing was to upload the footage from the SD card to my computer. I then had to import this footage to Adobe Premiere Pro. I did this by dragging the video files from the folder they had been saved to on the computer into the import space on Adobe Premiere.

 

The most important aspect is the song itself, I saved an mp4 version of the song and then dragged that into the import space, then I had to drag that onto the editing timeline. As there is a quiet gap at the beginning of the song, I had to cut down some of the beginning and choose where I wanted the song to start. As the mp4 file also contained video, I had to lock the audio track in place on the Audio 1 line on the timeline and then select the video and delete it, then unlock the audio line.

 

In order to be more creative in my editing compared to last year, I researched how to use certain effects and experimented with settings I hadn’t used before. A prime example of this is the shot of my main character walking towards the castle, there is an RGB effect flicking around her as she walks, this required me to create multiple layers and change corresponding channel colours.

 

I also experimented with a glitch effect, this was because of key moments at the start of the song that sound like static noises. This also required several layers and moving the different layers to alternative sides.

 

Like last year, I used the ‘Fast Colour Corrector’ feature. Last year, I was rather unsuccessful using this feature as my outcome came out far too blue, so this time I was more careful with the colours I chose and the intensity of these colours. As my video was quite fairy-tale like, I decided to go for a faint pink on the corrector, and as it was sunny when I filmed, the colours reflected nicely and the colouring was a lot more subtle.

 

Part of the way through editing, I noticed a lot of my shots were middle or long shots, so to give a range of shots, I zoomed in on some of the clips. Even though the outcome was slightly grainy, I felt that it would be best to include this variation and the grain was not the worst it could have been.