Final Cut Construction

After we had filmed again following the feedback from our rough cut, we had to edit our rough cut and insert the new shots we had taken. Based on the rough cut feedback, we took more shots with better lighting, more shots of the lead singer looking into the camera, a new opening to the video, an extreme close up of the singer’s lips, and more energetic shots during the chorus.

The editing of the video was much easier this time around because it was a simple case of taking out any shots we did not like and replacing them with the better ones we had filmed. Some shots were replaced so that we had more shots of the lead singer looking into the camera, and some shots were replaced so that the lighting was clearer. You can see in the images the same point in the rough cut and final cut but the different shot we chose for the final cut. 

 

We imported the footage from the camera and added the new clips to the sequence bin. Using the in and out points, we selected the new clips we wanted from the footage. Once we had found the clip we wanted to replace, we deleted it from the track and filled its gap with the new clip. We then made sure the clip was in time by adjusting it slightly on the timeline and making it in sync with the music.

We decided that we wanted to add a new piece of imagery to our video during the instrumental at 2:00. We had filmed a light coming on and decided to use this as a transition between two clips. We put the clip of the light bulb on the track above the original sequence, and this allowed two clips to overlap each other. The clip of the light bulb was then edited as we changed its opacity, meaning you could see the clip of the drum behind it during the transition.

The final things we added to the video were the MTV logo and the small text box in the bottom left corner that shows the song name and artist at the beginning and end of the video. To see how we added the MTV logo, click here. To add the text box, we had to keyframe a green box to pop up at the beginning of the song and then black text would fade on to it. We created a green rectangle using the colours from the MTV website, and then used the image and wireframe tool to adjust the size of the rectangle we wanted. At the beginning of the video, the rectangle was positioned off the screen, and then a keyframe was added. We allowed the video to play for 3 seconds then moved the rectangle onto the screen and made it full sized. We then added another keyframe. This meant that the box would now move onto the screen after 3 seconds on its own. After 8 seconds we moved the box off the screen and added another keyframe, so the box would then move off the screen again. The next stage was to add text and position it in line with the green box. We added a fade in and out to the text and the text box was finished.