Production of Music Video: Skills Development

Editing Skills I have learnt:

 

1.  Changing the atmosphere of a video, this may be by changing the tint to a vintage effect using the colour corrector or completely getting rid of the colur by desaturating the colour.
2. Green Screen, using the chroma key gets rid of any green on a piece of footage and allows you to put a moving image or a still image behind it. This didn't result to be very successful as it made the video look cheap and tacky so we didn't use it.
3. Markers, placing markers on your footage to the beat of the song will give you the exact points of where you might want to cut during your editing. Especially if you have a fast paced song (which we have) this definitely comes in handy and our video flowed really well becuase of it.
4. Changing brightness, contrast and saturation. Any dark footage we had we made brighter.
5. Image and wireframe. If a shot is out of frame or contains background that we din't want particularly during the green screen we would zoom out 25% and alter the image in the 'image and wireframe' tab so that we could get the shot we wanted.
6. Slow motion with time lapse. Time lapse wasn't on Final Cut Pro but we did manage to find a way of manipulating the same technique using slow motion and layering. Thus creating a slow motion echoeing of movement.
7. Dip to colour dissolve. Although this is a type of video transition we was able to use this effect in a sense that it looked like a flashing light by cuttting up a piece of footage multiple times and placing the effect inbetween.
8.  We was also able to create a flashing light effect without using the dip to colour effect but by just zooming in on our footgae on the timeline to the fullest and cutting up the footage every two jumps to the right with the right arrow key then deleting every other small clip.