Editing the Video

To edit my footage and make it into a music video I used Adobe Premiere Elements, which I had previously not used. In the preliminary task last year I had used Windows Movie Maker so using a different program was quite confusing to begin with. I started by importing the footage and watching it through to see what shots I had managed to get. I used the razor tool as I watched it first time through to cut at the ends of the scenes. After this was done it was easy to go back through and delete the section I didn’t want to use. Once I had discarded the footage, which I didn’t want to include, I started to rearrange the order of the shots so that they followed on better.Once I had decided on the order of the shots I wanted to have, I then used the video effects. I used a fade from black at the start of the video and a fade to black at the end, which I think worked quite effectively because it opened and closed the video in an interesting way. Adding music over the top, linking shots together to create a sequence. For the rest of the video I chose not to have any effects in it, as I wanted it to be quite snappy, and keep the audience alert. I thought that by adding effects it would make the video seem slower and could possibly get boring so I left it with sharp cuts in it.To finish the video I added the music and made sure that the length of the song matched the length of the video. Once this was done I saved it as a movie file and asked people to watch it and give me feedback.