Construction - Day 5 of Editing

The 5th day of editing involved editing new clips that we had filmed a couple of days before. One of the main challenges of this editing day was that the new clips we had filmed required more editing knowledge and techniques. This was due to a number of different transitions and effects that we needed in order for different shots and scenes to work. One of these included myself having to disappear and reappear on a bench next to Michael. To gain this effect we overlaid the two clips, one of Michael and the other me and used the additive dissolve transition so the apparition was gradual and neat. We then used the same effect for the disappearing part. Another transition to proved very difficult was one in which the camera moves up from Michael then when it comes down back down it is me. After this day of editing i did not manage to get the intended effect as the transition would not work in time with the part of the song the group wanted it for. We tried speeding up the transition and cutting but both ideas were futile so we came to the conclusion that it was not possible. However the finished effect we achieved is not exactly what we were hoping for but still achieves the same out come and works well in time with the music. Lastly during this day of editing I was able to use the opacity effect so two clips can play at once. I used this a number of times just by overlaying the clips and putting the opacity of the top clip down to around 50. After this day we then had over half of our music video done and we could definitely finish our video with a few more days of filming, subject to all of our filming days running smoothly.

-BYRAN FERROL-