Examples of editing

Although I have worked on iMovie during my AS production, I have learnt new skills and features on the program that I wasn't already familiar with; each of which have allowed me to edit the filming to a more professional level.

The photographs below explain how I have edited various aspects of the video and why:

Reversing shots is an effective edit as it allows shots to be played in sequence of how it is recorded, or in the opposite direction - in the music video so far, the shot of Fran being held by Max is being used is played firstly in a reversed shot to suggest 'being captured' however later in the music video it is played in the correct order 'setting free'.

In order to reverse the shot:

- Right click the chosen shot

- Select 'Clip Adjustments'

This is an example of the shot before it was reversed:

and this is the shot when it has been reversed

- Convert the entire clip selected to enable this feature below:

As you can see above, converting the clip allows the 'Reverse' option to be ticked - meaning the shot can be played in reverse to it's original format.

Because of the majority of shots having a lot of background noise, as I said in the 'day five of filming' entry, other students were in the hall due to an after school club and many shots included us discussing filming whilst recording which meant the filming has needed to be muted so the song can be played as the main sound.

Right clicking and selecting 'clip adjustments' (as highlighted in the editing example above) takes me to this box again, however rather than selecting the 'Clip' tab, I have selected the 'Audio' tab - this is because the volume is an aspect of the clip audio. The volume is automatically set as 100%, however by click and dragging the volume cursor, I can take the volume down to 0%, meaning it has been entirely muted.

The pace of shots is significantly important in the editing process for successful and effective portrayal of shots and it's content. For example, filming a person running at a normal pace would not work as effectively as it would if it was faster (to create anticipation) or slower (to prepare the viewer for an upcoming fast paced shot) etc. Having a variety of paced shots keeps the viewers intrigued by what they are watching and to create several moods i.e. anticipation, fear, sympathy...

Right clicking and choosing 'clip adjustments' opens this box which allows the speed of the shot to be changed, under the 'clip' tab, the higher percentage of the speed (see below 50%) determines the faster pace, and lower percentage meaning slower pace...

The contrast of colours and saturation in music videos can be considered as quite a significant aspect as it can imply the genre that the artist/band is basing their music around. Stereotypically blue colours are associated with melancholy and sad music, white to exemplify purity and red and black (which we are aiming for) connote evil, danger and gothic elements.
In order to change the colour of an individual shot on iMovie I had to do the following:

Right click the chosen clip and select 'Clip Adjustments' - this simply means I am making an adjustment to the clip to change the appearance of it's content.

Choose the 'Video' tab, as this type of editing concerns the video content rather than the clip itself or the audio. This takes me to the box below, allowing me to alter the colours to my preference:

If a clip needs to be trimmed by very few seconds if not less than a second, it's easier to insert the entire clip to the storyboard part of iMovie, where it will be used as part of the music video and then choose which part of the clip to trim rather than select a specific amount of the clip from the selection in the bottom half of the page. Trimming clips is done by:

Right click, and select 'Clip trimmer'

The chosen clip appears below where I can click and drag how much of the clip I want to keep NOT delete!
The clip was trimmed here specifically as it looked like I was standing waiting for Fran to say 'Action' which made it look unrealistic.

EDITING UPDATE ON 21/03/2013
Today I learnt  how to 'crop' the content of individual shots, on one of the shots we had already recorded and put onto iMovie, Fran realised that my fingers were noticeable (this was whilst tying up Jodie's hands) so we decided that it would be best to crop my fingers out, for continuity purposes and to ensure it looked realistic.
To crop, I had to right click the selected clip and choose 'Cropping and rotation':

This took me here, where I could choose which amount of the clip I wanted included in the green square. What is included in the green square is what remains in the clip, NOT what is deleted:

Although it is quite difficult to see here, I have cropped out where my finger was visible in the clip!