Construction - First Day of Editing

Now we had some filming done we needed to edit it, we transferred our files onto the computer and changed them to mpeg. We then uploaded these files to premier to we could edit them professionally. I first added the song to the audio layer so we had a basis to work on, from here we could add clips and time them to the song. Firstly we added out opening clip, this was of Mitchell walking with the sun behind him, the sun or bright lights is a common motif used in music videos and this is why we used it. We added a dip to black before this so the film eases in rather than suddenly starting. We then added the shot of him walking through leaves in the park followed by a close up of his feet kicking the leaves, we then returned to him walking but this time shown from the front, this allows us to show continuity.

When Mitchell stopped to lean on a tree and sing we added some close up shots to show fragmentation of the body before he starts singing. On this part of the film I added some transitions of dip to black between the closeups, it adds some tension as it is building up to Mitchell singing. 

We then added the filming of him singing against the tree, however I need to edit this scene by adding some clips of flashbacks and Mitchell on the piano but cannot do this until we film some shots as I don't have the filming we need. After this we added Mitchell walking while singing and dispersed this by inserting an edited clip of mitchell by the trees. This clip was filmed in one take in which we filmed mitchell at different points near different trees, to edit this i had to cut them into separate clips then mesh them together. We also added some clips of Mitchell singing between the trees scene to keep the film interesting.

Video edited by Aisleen Dunne

Blog post written by Aisleen Dunne