Editing session 4

At the beginning of this lesson, I managed to find a stabiliser tool which would enable me to adjust the clips that were a little shaken or didn't look as fixed as I wanted them to be. It relates back to when I was filming and at times whenever the camera was a little unstable at times on the tripod due to the wind. After this, I also decided to make the Artifact effect with the sunlight dots appear a little more natural during the verses of the song. But during the chorus parts of the song, in order to emphasise the main lyrics and parts of the video, where they are more upbeat in sound compared to the verses, I made the dots look brighter to reflect that. 

As a continuation, I kept placing the footage in the order I wanted. I managed to match the whole of the first chorus to the artist singing in the song, and the points where its says '(Oh, Ohh)' in the chorus I placed extra scenes. This is so it did not wholly focus on the artists singing as it wouldn't be interesting to see it without having a few different scenes mixed together.  The first extra clip I placed was an establishing shot of the surrounding scenery (including a lake) and then one mid shot of her walking down a forest path towards the camera. At this point, I was pleased with how the first two verses and  first chorus had turned out, especially with the lip syncing and how the music video was flowing having different scenes cut back and forth from her singing, to scenes of her in the surrounding environment.

For the remainder of the lesson, to fit in with my main idea, I began to place the scenes where she finds the heart necklace and walks away with it for the next verse (3) before the second chorus begins. I placed a low angle shot of her walking past the camera, then followed by a long shot of her finding the necklace on the floor and crouching down to pick it up. Again, to make it more interesting I cut to her singing parts of the third verse. The singing footage I took, was a close up of her against a tree, so my video had a variety of singing shots and not always located in one place. As said in my 8th Journal, the variety of shots help correspond to her uncertainty of her relationship and having no set answer. As a match on action scene, it showed a close up of her holding the necklace (linking to her crouching to pick it up scene) and then a point of view shot where she is walking with the necklace in her hand and looking down at it.

Finally, I got to the second chorus and placed her close up singing footage with extra scenes of a mid shot of her looking around, wearing the necklace.

Next lesson, I will get on to ordering the final few scenes for the song and continue matching the lip syncing to the artist's voice.