Rough Cut 3 – Editing Blog Since the last rough cut, I have progressed my editing even further than before, looking deeper into my film, and working on my feedback to further edit my music video into a better, more refined piece if coursework. Mostly, since rough cut 2, I have almost finished pacing my footage into the right places, and having all my footage imported and selected into my music video, having only one shot not in the timeline to complete my film placement. As well as this, I have also added more effects over the top of my project that have been seen before, such as adding bad TV and Security footage over the top of the news presenter, and further adding it on top as done with before.

Newly in this rough cut, I had the idea to make a real distortion in the video, something more interesting, giving a ghost effect to the news reporter when it is supposed to be really distorted, I did this by getting three of the identical clip, layering them on top of each other, then moving the frames slightly apart, so they are out of sync, then I decreased the opacity on the top 2 layers creating a ghosting effect from the movement. As well as this, I added the prism and security filter over the top; this was to continue the

grainy film distortion that I was intending to do on all the footage of the news presenter. As well as this, I had the film prepared to do the burning effect, and after a lot of hassle trying to think of how I was planning on doing this. I had the idea of getting a fire overlay, which was very effective, finding a whole screen burning footage, as documented on my blog, then adding it over the top of other footage. To make the footage look like it’s burning as well, I

used a piece of footage and cut it up, this footage could then be manipulated into the effect I wanted. For some of the effects, I scaled up and moved different parts of the footage, to show mass distortion to the products, as well as this, I added more overlays over the top to have the burning feel. Among these overlays I had the effects Aura (for a burning look of the news presenter) as well as projector, 50’s, Sharpen and memory. On top of this, I used some of the generators in Final cut, the blobs generator, and added the footage of the cross on top in flashes. After decreasing the opacity on top, this helps the layering, and shows the burning effect intended as well. Finally, I used the retime tool to once again increase the speed of the footage of the news reporter, to create a distorted effect, and added the x-ray filter on some of the shots for effect.