P5

 As I said in P4 my music video is far from what it could of been but here is how I edited it.  I made footage of nature and put them in order.  Shown below is my offline unedited version.  I made this after reviewing all my video rushes in my folder and put them in order of which I liked for example using the establishing shot at the start to make the setting.

When I was filming my video I made sure that the quality of the footage was 1080p and was running at 25 frames per second.  Of course I was filming with my phone and iPad but overall the quality was good and was bearable to watch.  I wanted my video to be 1080p and run at 25fps because the my client made a brief explaining they wanted a high quality video so I wanted to apply a lot to the brief that I could.  I also wanted the audio to be at good quality but unfortunately if I’m doing a cover to a song recorded in the 1930s almost a century ago the audio wouldn’t be the best to be honest.  But it doesn’t mean that the audio is not the best it could be and overall the old style audio brings more nostalgia to the the ears of the target audience I am targeting.  When editing the audio on to the software what I did was receive the audio file that my client provided and had it play over all the muted footage I took.  All the footage I took was muted because I did not have a proper microphone for the outside and overall if it would have been unmuted in the video it would have had a horrible cracking sound over the video that would’ve hurt the ears of the audience.

While editing my video I made some basic editing on how the footage looked and how they changed to other footage.  This can be shown by the fact that the first half of the music video is black and white and when the vocals start it fades quickly into colour. This was part of my original plan for my music video when the instrumental started if we had a band but unfortunately we didn’t due to the unfortunate events of the world. I have also faded footage when they change to different footage but there are times when it it’s a hard change of footage for when the beet changes.   

Here is my fully edited video timeline.  When editing I have used factors such as fading to a different frame, using black and white filters and fading into colour.  I also mainly had sharp transitions between the footage as most jazz music videos have them mainly but I did some times have scenes that would fade from each other to make it more clean.  The black and white filter is a key part of my video and was very helpful to show the mood.  I also edited the transition from bland and white to colour buy cutting the footage in half and making them fade to the other half which is colourised.  I edited this so that it would change as soon as the lyrics started.  I also faded to black at the end which end the video quite nicely.

Post Production Process

After I finished filming the production it then became time to complete the post production process.  What I first did was put all my rough cuts into an order in which I preferred…

… after ordering the rough cuts I muted all of them and then I put the audio of the song over them…

…Then I added the transitions which where mostly clean cuts that occurred on a beat or change in rhythm…

… I also added fade transitions like include when the colour changes.

Conventions

In a music video you would expect there to be a narrative and storyline.  Now this song has a narrative but it doesn’t really have a storyline, now that is mainly because of how everything turned upside down when the second lockdown hit.  So I had to improvise last minute to make a music video.  But overall there aren’t really that many jazz music videos out there and the ones that exist don’t really have storylines either so I made my music video feel like a generic video of the genre.

Symbolic codes

The clear amount of nature that I have used in this video is clearly a lot and this is to show the purity of it and how we need to keep the world with it’s beautiful greenery.

Technical codes

In jazz music, the audio is normally quite old and the quality isn’t normally that good so it wouldn’t make that much of a difference when it came to quality of the audio to make it a generic video.  The audio that I used was made almost a century ago and so the quality is expected to not be that good and obviously not 48kh. 

List of Feedback

Of course one of the main pieces of feedback I got was to add a storyline to my video, now I wish I could’ve beforehand but over all I could not because of the pandemic.  If I able to make this video again I would have given my self more time and more actors to be able to film enough footage to make a storyline that is just like the shooting script but that can only happen when there isn’t a lockdown.

Another piece of feedback I was given was that the audio could be better and indeed it would’ve been better if there wasn’t a lockdown as I would’ve recorded new audio with a jazz band to make it work.  If I was able to make the video again without there being a lockdown I would’ve made new audio to make the audio be at full quality of 48kh.

Software and Tools 

When editing the video there wasn't many softwares available for me to use but there where a few at my disposal such as iMovie and Adobe Rush.  iMovie i have used many times before with the first time when i was 9 years old in primary school so i was familiar with it and how to use it.  There was also Adobe rush which i had never used before however i was familiar with many of their other softwares such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and i was told that it was a lot more professional and in-depth with creating media such as music videos.  Here are some screenshots of how I edited the video including changing the colour and how the image transitions from one to the other.

Above is an example of many different filters you could use with Adobe Rush and you can see how it can affect your media.  This is how I chose the black and white filter for half of my footage all i had to do was pick a filter that suited the footage best and then afterwards i made it fade quickly to footage that had no filter at all to show the natural side of the video.  I will discuss how i did this below under the next screenshot.

Here above is an example of the many different transitions between footage that you could use in a video.  The one highlighted in blue is the fade in transition and i used this one the most in my entire video.  An example of me using this transition is when i changed the footage from black and white to colour in my video.  Instead of using a clean cut transition i used a quick 'fade in' transition in a slice of footage cut in two with tools that i will talk about below.

Here above is the main tool i used the most in Adobe Rush.  It's called the Crop Tool and it helped me a lot to Split footage in two or more so i could change the footage filter from black and white to colour using this tool.  To use it you would tap on the area that you want cutting in half and then in between that you could add a transition and change the filter to adda beautiful transition of colour which i did.

Shown below is an example of the filter changing to colour in the video, this worked out really well.

Strengths review

In my video there are many strength that make it much more than what I could have been.  This is because of the fact that if there wasn’t any editing such as filters, transitions and audio etc. All it would be would be a very boring slideshow of footage.  For example a strength of my video was the transition between black and white to colour.  This is one of the most technical parts of the video and it worked really well.  Shown below is how it works.

Another strength was the many fading transitions in the video.  It really added the flavour to the video that many things didn’t making the video more professional.  Here is an example shown by the screenshots of a transition.  You can also see this is all in black and white to make the audience feel nostalgia of the old times and really makes the video better and fits with the genre and especially to my proposal.