Editing session 8

For today's lesson, I had a run through of my entire music video to again check for any mishaps or improvements that I could make. It is important to check for these, to see if in any way I could make my music video more precise in it's presentation and make it look as good as possible. 
As said from my previous editing session, I took my teachers thoughts about the Artifact effect into consideration. At first, I decided which shots I could use to keep the Artifact effect on and which ones I should remove. At the start of the video, I removed the effect from the over the shoulder shot of her looking at the phone, mid shot of her reaction after looking at the phone's message, close up of her face, her throwing the phone, a shot of the deer walking and near to the end of the first chorus the extra scene where she finds the necklace. As I did a run through from this editing, I noticed that the scenes mixed (showing the effect and not) made the video look peculiar and unbalanced. I want the presentation of the video to look professional as much as possible and this editing would make the video flow strangely. So, I decided to place the Artifact effect back on the scenes I took them off, in order for it to flow well. Also, I changed the opacity on the verses throughout the song to a 3/2, which would make the sunlight dots appearance more natural to the scenes allocated. But, to fit in with the upbeat tempo of the choruses I made the Artifact effect (sunlight dots) opacity a 4 to make them brighter. 
Near to the end of the lesson, I looked at other effects to experiment with as my other teacher suggested I do so, in order to broaden my options before my final decision. I would like to keep the Artifact effect and hardlight effect on my video, but it is worth trying out other effects to see how they appear. I managed to find one effect which heightened the scenery especially, called Romantic. It provided a soft glow-like look that surrounded the main image. I placed this effect on scenes around the beginning of the deer by the house, the deer walking shot and the pan of the lake scenery. It looked good as a nature effect and heightened the images, but next lesson I will see if this effect is good on any other scenes ( and whether or not it does affect the flow of the video's appearance).