-Development Diary: Music Video-

Firstly I opened up my project up on Final Cut Pro which all the film clips I had shot previously. I decided to place my music audio in first so I was ale to design the pace of the shots to work with the song. I did this by going to file and pressing import then file, which allowed me to select the audio file and place it in to the audio section of the editing timeline. I then clicked the padlock sign on the audio sequence line to make sure that the music does not move within the timeline so I am able to edit the music successfully to the beat of the song.

I then began to create the opening visual shot for my music video, which shows a quote upon a black background so I went to the A Text button and clicked on the text button from the drop down then selected the typewriter style as the quote I plan to use is by Oscar Wilde so this style helped to exaggerate the

quotes literary style. Once I added in this shot I placed the next shot type next to it, which began showing my footage. I added this by double clicking my select shot, which then came up in my editing viewer. I then edited the length of the segment that I wanted by pressing the mark in arrow and then pressing the mark out arrow to finish the segment I want. I then dragged the selected segment into my sequence bar, which I then place next to the already existent scene. I then continue this action with a variety of different shots to create the sequence that I envisaged. I continued with this process until I had developed a music video that fits in with the tempo of the song. Once I had competed the editing of shots and the arrangement of the shots I am now able to see how much total useable

footage that I have which allows me if I need to edit the audio to fit with the shots. The audio for my music video needed to be shortened down to fit with the song and the composition of the music video, which I was able to do by unlocking the audio sequence and shortening the audio by clicking the end of the audio and dragging it to suitable point where I would be able to fade it out. Once I had done this I was able to fade the music out by using the pen tool which allows me to drag the audio towards the bottom line which will fade the music out which is you are able to see I have done within my audio section I then clicked the padlock button again which allowed me to secure the movement of the audio.

After I had completed the audio and the shot organisation I began to edit the music video through the use of video transition. I placed the video transitions in selected places, which helped the video to flow by going to Effect>Video

Transitions>Dissolve>Cross Dissolve, this allowed me to fade the shots in and out of each other in a neat way that helps to create a more professional element to the music video. I then added the transitions in at point that I thought were suitable for instance the changing of locations within the video as it helped to create a smooth transition between different settings and styles.

After completing my music video I went back over each shot and it’s transition, which allowed me to look at them in more detail to make sure the changes were

in time with the music whilst also looking at the transitions and how well they work in context within the shots. When going through it like this I

found at the end of the video that using the cross dissolve tool wasn’t working the way I wanted it so I decided to do manually. I did this by placing the second shot in the sequence on the line above the other so it was slightly crossing over. After placing the shot in the right way I used the pencil tool, which allows me to drag in and out, the shot to create a cross dissolve.

Whilst going through my music video I decided to add in a transition after the break up scene which allowed the shots to fade from colour to black and white which I chose to highlight the change of mood in the video. I did this by using the same tool as I when creating a cross dissolve but however between the two shots proceeding I placed a cross dissolve that used the desaturation tool to fade the colors into black and white. I then video filtered the rest of the shots through the desaturation tool reflecting the mood of the scenes.