My Edit

Initially I hadn't had any previous editing experience apart from previous media projects. This time I wanted to look into the editing process in more depth by learning how to use more advanced tools such as colour correctors and transistion effects. Before this I had only really used hard cuts and fades, while these are still perfectly usable they aren't interesting to watch over and over again. I used Adobe Premiere Pro.

I began as I usually do by renaming all the clips so they are easy to recognize. I then 'cut the fat' off of all the clips I planned to use by removing bloopers and parts of the footage that I didn't want. 

Once I completed this I started to apply colour correctors and filters to the footage to get it looking how I wanted. For example, above shows how I changed the colours of the shot to contain a lot more blue than it originally did. The reason I did this is because I wanted the weather to seem very gloomy for the boy however I didn't want it to seem dark. I use these ideas at other points in the editing process such as at corfe castle where I add more yellow to the sky to get the desired golden hour effect that we originally wanted. Audience feedback from the questionnaire said that interesting visuals are important in a music video, this is something that I tried to achieve here using colours. 

I really tried to nail down the tone of the song and get it to match the video. To this end I purposefully left the screen black for periods of around 5 seconds. I did this because of how I think it forces the audience to focus on the lyrics making them much more profound. However, my team disagrees with me here, they think that it seems a little boring. I decided that they were right and cut them down, replacing the black spaces with vista footage.

Attempting to do an edit on my own taught me a lot about editing. It really opened my eyes as to how long a project can take to edit as well as how much thought goes into every single cut or transition. I now feel confident editing my own piece of film however i do not think that we will be using this edit for the final film. Instead we will stick to the plan and I will attempt to mix this with Sam's work.