MC: Editing The Music Video

For the music video we went on many shoots in order to get the performance part of our music video right, as well as having enough footage for the narrative fuzz friendship line of action. After filming against a black background and also using projections for the performance, we decided these did not look effective, especially as the projections landed across the artist's face in an unattractive way. This therefore meant we had to re-shoot and we chose to use a blue screen instead.

After filming, I had to create backgrounds to go behind our artist once the blue screen was removed. To do this I used Adobe Photoshop. I opened a new document and used the bucket tool to fill the background with a solid colour. I then used to the gradient tool to drag a gradient onto the solid colour background. This gave the background more depth and made it look more effective. I then saved these as JPGS, ready to be placed behind the clips of our artist.

In order to cut out our artist from the blue background, I used After Effects and used the keying option to remove the blue background and place in the coloured backgrounds. Once I had completed this and made sure the cut out of our artist was as precise as it could be, I placed the coloured backgrounds behind her, using a different colour for each clip. This was then exported and opened in Adobe Premier Elements 9.0.

We then intercut our performance clips in with our second line of action of the friends by using tools such as a scissor tool. In order to emphasise the difference between the two lines of action we dragged and dropped a black and white effect onto each of the narrative fuzz friendship clips. To make the colouring all look the same on each of the clips, we changed the brightness and contrast on them as well. We had to match up the lip syncing with the music and make sure everything flowed nicely.