AICE Media Studies: Editing Blog Continued

As filming finally came along, and all of the puzzle pieces started to fall into place, I knew it was time to edit. Editing was smooth like the last time I completed a semi-large project like this. This time, instead of using an external third-party editing app, I used the in-house home-movie application for apple devices, iMovie. Because of this, I was very limited in the editing that I could do and I would have to use tricks to work around all the editing problems with iMovie. Fortunately, I was able to do so and with no hiccups present. I started but ensuring the music video would look cinematic just like the actual music video for the song. And I was able to achieve this by applying a cinematic filter, camp to be specific to the whole movie. One thing about editing this music video that I had to acknowledge from when I started using iMovie was that my transition set would be limited to basic transitions such as jump, slide, swipe, and fade. Knowing that the original music video used a combination of effects in Adobe Premiere Pro, I had to use my creativeness to achieve a decent set of transitions. So for any scenes that would include a time jump I would slide to a black stock iMovie Image with the title of the time jump, which would then slide to the next scene. As for any other scene, I would complete a jump cut to have the effect of “simplicity at its best.” These were by far the easiest scenes for me to edit to get here as they just showed my actors playing together and the transitions had no need to be smooth at all. While editing, I applied a swipe transition to two separate shots where my actors were just running around a small park. In doing this, I found out that the scene looked better as a whole if the transition was less sophisticated and more simple. I didn't feel the need to over-complicate the video and in turn at more stress on myself to perfect every single scene. Since we were on the topic of speaking about the easiest scene to film, by all means, I should inform you of the hardest scene to film. This scene was completed twice in my music video and once in the original. At first, j was going to try to replicate the original music video in editing because I wasn't in storytelling, but I figured I work better with my thoughts, and not someone else. These sets of scenes are full body shots of myself but what makes them so unique is how they're seen by the viewer. It is a one panning shot of a single subject that has multiple jumps cuts to black and jump cuts back to the subject. This creates a strobing effect as the switch from black to sudden pops of color catches the viewer off guard and can easily be seen as the best scene in the music video. That scene was placed after the title card showing the title of the song and the end of the music video and fades to black to signal the completion of the video.