Construction Post 4: Music Video post-production

The Program we are using to edit our video is Adobe Premiere Pro.
We wanted our music video to have a main focus on lighting, lots of fast paced editing with the use of quick cuts and transition effects. 

Adobe Premiere Pro

Me Editing

Angela editing the bridge of
our song

The Grading process

Our edit suite space

The tools which been particularly beneficial in helping us produce this concept in our music video are Pro-camp and the effects control toolbar, which enabled us to change the scale, motion, position, opacity and crop of our video. An example of these can be found below:

Procamp example

Procamp

• Pro-camp enabled us to create a flashy effect on some clips by decreasing their brightness but increasing their contrast



Shaana's verse after flashy effect is
added

• From an audience focus group we'd interviewed after watching our music video, they commented on how much they loved the 'flashy' effects we had already minimally used, so we decided to put more in, especially in Shaana's first verse as you can see in the GIF on the right.

Cross Dissolve

Cross dissolve effect exampl

• Cross dissolve helped us slow down the transition between clips in order to go with the slow mood of the music in the beginning of the song

Horizontal Flip

Horizontal flip example

• Using the Horizontal flip helped us create that fast paced editing effect we wanted as a concept for the music video

Effects control bar

Effects control bar example

• The effects control bar made it able for us to create motion within certain clips that had been filmed as a static shot. For example with this shot, we used scale and position to make a zoom in and a slight pan right

Here are a few examples of some of the problems we encountered and yet were able to solve.

My own contributions: 

• Editing (adding effects to and cutting together clips for) the chorus scenes
• Editing (adding effects to and cutting together clips for)  my individual verse
• Grading
• Cutting together clips for the bridge of the song

What I could improve on:

• Syncing up videos to the music track properly, so the audience is tricked into thinking we are actually singing the song and is believable
• Put more variations on the types of setups I could've included in the chorus scenes and not just restricting them to the dance shots but also the one take singing shots

Before: chorus scene restricted to
just dance shots

After feedback from teacher who 
advised us to including the random shots 
we'd filmed for fun, like the balloon scene,
 and to use them as filler shots