Editing/Effects

Our footage might be good, but it will only become a great music video through the editing stage. In order to do a good job at editing, patience and time is required (and A LOT OF PRACTICE! As practice makes perfect - right?) I need to go over the footage, and have a go at editing it down, log and capturing it and add necessary effects using Final Cut Pro. I've advised all members of the team to have a go at editing as it's very time consuming and if Nawid (our Editor) wouldn't be able to edit at a specific time, those who are free could take his place for the time being and edit as this would save a lot of time!   


By looking at different hip hop, dancehall and bashment music videos, I've noticed some of them have an opening of action but with no soundtrack (for the frist 10 seconds or so).

As we're using Final Pro, filling in areas with colours (flashing) will be very difficult as the it's a continuous movement. We've intially have used a white backdrop in order to give the video a real 'studio effect' (which also correlates with the lyrics), however, looking more into the 'sin city effect' in order to make it work we would have to use green screen. This is because the program can pick up the colour green and we will then be able to change the colour.

Sin City effect:



For a still image (which we can use for our CD cover) select a section of which one wishes to change the colour, adjust the balance and the hue to the correct setting.