Editing: Finishing the rough cut.

Today we finished the first rough curt of our music video.

The last thing we had to do was to edit the final section of the song. To bring the song together we wanted to to a fast paced montage of the scenes from Brighton. We put it together with each cut lasting about 2 seconds.

We then cut in some scenes where Jem is silhouetted against the projection dancing, which added a more fun aspect to an otherwise serious and dramatic video, we did this as we wanted to show the fun side of our artist. As some of the projection footage was the same as the footage from Brighton, we tried to do it so the same scene linked up with the projection, this worked really nicely and looked really cool.

For the last few seconds we used some footage of the projections without Jem in front, this gave it a grainy 'vintage' feel which we really liked.

In the last shot we used, there was a seagull flying through the shot. At first we tried freezing the frame, however this looked weird and stiff, so instead we slowed the shot down so the bird was flying in slow motion, this worked best as at this exact point the song slows down, the movement of fast paced cutting to slow motion really worked with the change of pace in the song.

Now that we have finished the rough cut, we can show this to our audience focus groups and recieve feedback which will help us to further improve our video.