Lo4 - Evidence of editing

The screenshots in the image above demonstrate how I added the transitions to my music video. I used primarily the 'additive dissolve' and 'non-additive dissolve' transitions as they made two separate clips merge into one another before completely transitioning, which I think gave a visually appealing and conventional indie denotation as it allowed to viewer to denote both the drummer and the lead singer at the same time, reinforcing the unity of their band and genre. I also think this transition was ideal for my music video as I used other effects such as the 'echo'  which created a ghost like / merging effect. Therefore both effects complimented each other well. 

In the image above you can see how I created the distorted, trip effect by using the 'echo' SFX. I dragged the effect from the panel onto the clip that I wanted it to be on and went to the 'video effects' section of the clip where I could adjust how I wanted the effect to denote. I decreased the amount of times the clip was repeated so that you could still clearly see what was going on in the clip and and decreased the decay as this added a high expose / bright light to my clip which looked unprofessional and un-appealing. This effect overall helped me meet the conventions of the indie genre as it denoted the illusion of being on drugs / tired, which are aesthetics associated with the indie genre as it seems 'edgy' and 'cool'. Plus the over all distortion of the effect creates a strong opposition from genres such as pop. which is a genre that 'indie people' don't want to bet associated with. 

In the image above you can see how I have colour graded my music video in order to fit the conventions go the indie genre and also simply denote more visually appealing. I mostly used the 'three-way colour' found in the 'colour' effects pannel, however I also used the RGB colour corrector sometimes in order to enhance undertones for colours such as blue and red. Originally I wanted my music video to be black and white as this denotation is strongly conventional to the indie genre however I thought that my second draft, which was black and white, looked too boring and didn't hold my attention the watching it. Therefore, in my final version I decided to use colour but in a grunge and dark way so that I was still meeting my brief. I used the three-way colour, to enhance the blue tones within the shadows, midtones to enhance the green tones in the video and highlights to enhance the warm red tones. I did this because not only would it create a cool contest in highlights and low-lights but I also watched a music video called 'Kathleen' by Catfish and The Bottlemen which had an old-school, 3D red and blue effect on it, which I thought looked really appealing and 'indie'. I also increased the contrast and decreased the satiation to get a stronger opposition between tones without making the video too colourful. I think doing this creates an overall professional, defined denotation rather than purely indie based. However due to the fact that the clips we took were very frustrating to work with in regards to lighting I often had to adjust different clips and play with the lighting in order to get an overall even denotation throughout the music video, I just did this by going on the 'colour' panel and increasing or decreasing both the brightness and saturation. 

In the image above you can see how I cut up my clips and placed them in order. I used the razor blade tool to cut the clips where I wanted them and then just deleted the end of the clip of the right. I often layered many clips below one another so that I won't constantly dragging clips onto the main panel, as the clip below the one I had removed would add a new scene in it's place. Obviously it wasn't as simple as this and I had to experiment with many clips however this technique was definitely helpful and time efficient. During scenes that I wanted to be merged together. I would drag a clip onto of the other and decrease the top clips capacity to 50%, which added a distorted, indie effect. 

The image above reflects how I slowed sections of my music video down in order to create a dramatic, conventional indie effect. I did this by left clicking on the clip, clicking 'speed/duration' and decreasing the clip to either 30% or 50% depending on the clip and time frame I had. I typically added this effect at point in the music video where either an instrument was being played, the lead singer was on his last word of that sentence or if the band members were doing gestures such as jumping. The use of slow motion helped enhance the movement in the video and make it more dramatic as its being denoted more clearly. 

This last image denotes how I exported my music video. I did it at h.264, which is an mp4 file, making it ideal for those who want to listen both on the go and at home.