Music Video editing

Leant how to edit a music video.

We learnt ways of editing a music video and tips of how to actually do it and what works. 

We will first do a performance cut of the song. Where we just edit all of the performance footage together of all the close ups and wide shots of the band members doing their performance. Then narrative will be integrated into the edited video, with all of the extra parts that will be put in, in the different parts of the music video. This will be for our music video, the performance will be in the band room that we chose with the fish eye lens on the camera. The performance in the band room will be shot first and edited together. All of the extra things such as the peaches and kitchen things are parts that will be edited in the performance cut

We have to make sure to properly sync the footage with the song. Put a time code onto the song, there will be an iPad that will plat a video on the help sync the footage. A drum will be put in to count the song. On premier pro, there is an icon underneath that can rename shots. Need to make sure we sync all of our footage with the music video. Find shots to choose a number to sync with the part of the shot. The sound syncing also has to match perfectly. There are certain parts in the music video like transitions that have to match up with footage, like for are peach song with the chorus transition, we can use the shot of the flower to go into that next chorus and then show the band performing. 

We have to listen to the video, find the first line of the song and it has to be with the face of the singer. We have to show the lead singer singing in our band room at the very beginning for our music video.

We should group shots together, with the different band members. If there is a shot of a drummer, then it should then transition into another shot of a drummer like a close up of a drummer, for example we could use our guitarist for a shot closed up on his face, we then could get a  close up shot of his hands with the guitar playing, and all of the shots we make of him should be together in the music video. 

A solo Artist is a lot more difficult, they have to find a way to illustrate the different sound effects after the performance cut, it is a lot harder than a band to do. Our song is a band so it would be easier than a solo singer. 

Small chunks should be edited at a time, 10 seconds a time to focus on those small chunks and make them as good as they can be.