PowerPoint discussing the various ways i edited the music video on iMovie.

1. Editing the video
Charlotte Springate

2. Throughout our video, we used a wide range of different editing skills, including the use of
green screen, cuts, fades, enhancing colour, cropping shots, slowing down &/or speeding up
short shots, picture-in-picture, image overlay and fitting the lip-syncing shots in with the music.
This image shows the iMovie program we used to edit our video on a Mac. In the bottom half of the page you can see the
storyboard for our video, with the beginning 25 seconds of storyboard visible. Below that you can see the audio for our video. In
the top right you can see the very beginning of our actual video. On the top left you can see the various videos we had to create
throughout editing for various reasons, with our actual video being selected.

3. This image is a close-up shot of the beginning of our storyboard that I have
included so that you can see the smaller details that we had to consider,
such as timings of the filler shots and the lengths of the lip-syncing shots.
For many of the shorter, filler shots we
used of different locations, we edited
them to slow them down or speed
them up to coincide with the speed of
the beat of the song. As you can see
from these two images, the clips with
the rabbit image have been sped up,
while the clip with the tortoise image
has been slowed down to flow with a
slower part of the song.
As seen in this image, we
put the rewind effect
over this shot of our
artist as it made her
hand movements look
more unusual, making
the video look a bit more
off-the-wall than
conventional music
videos.

4. We included a short picture montage
around 1m54 into the video, as we felt that
would break up the video and avoid making
the clips repetitive. Each picture was shown
for just under a second, and we edited the
length of each to fit the beat of the song.
When out filming, we filmed
lots of different shots so that
when it came to editing we
would have a wider choice. As
you can see in this image, the
clip selected there is clip #309.
The orange line at the bottom
of the clip indicates which part
of that clip we cut from it and
used in our video.
In the beginning of the video, we open with filler shots of
different locations, and our artist is deliberately only revealed
when the vocal part of the song begins and the artist begins lip-
syncing. We chose to do this because we wanted to build
anticipation. Again, each clip of the locations are short to give a
brief reveal of the different locations we filmed and included in
the video.

5. Once we had filmed with the green screen, we then needed to edit the
backgrounds into white on each clip. There was nine in total and this process
was fairly time-consuming as we needed to import the clips, edit the
backgrounds of each video individually- as seen in the image on the right- save
that clip, import it again, upload onto the original clip of Kelsey, make sure
everyone was singing the same parts of the chorus at the same time, and
sometimes edit the colour quality of each clip so that they fit in together. We
decided also to alter the colour of Kelsey’s shot so that she was in black &
white as we felt that, against the white background and with the extras in
colour, that would add an interesting contrast to the chorus.
Adding extras into the original chorus clip was simple, but time consuming, as
we just had to place that clip above the original on the storyboard (as seen in
the two images below, where two different extras are added to the
storyboard), then select the picture-in-picture option and then move the clip
around to place it. After each of these were done, we needed to import each
video again, and so we ended up with a lot of saved clips of nearly the same
shots.
During this time, we also tired
different placements of the
extras, as we wanted to see
which were more effective. In the
end, we decided that it looks
more uniform to have two rows
of two extras on either side of
Kelsey’s head, and then one extra
on either side of her arms.

6. When placing the extras in the video, we contemplated
putting some next to one another, as seen in the picture
above. To do this, we needed to place one clip on top of
the other in the storyboard, then select the ‘side-by-
side’ option on the adjustments selection. After some
consideration, we decided against this as it was easier
for us to just have the extras individual on the clip, so
we rejected this.
These two images are pictures of the way that
both the final storyboard and the chorus itself
looked after editing. We looked at each extra as
well as Kelsey when editing to make sure that all
are lip-syncing the same part of the song at the
same time.

7. When filming, I decided to
film some fairy-lights, as seen
in the image above, because I
wanted to try to overlay
these onto shots of Kelsey
lip-syncing. When I edited
this, I found that it looked
really effective and so we
decided to put it into the
music video.
We edited this shot of Kelsey with the
fairy-light overlay to make it black and
white as we wanted to see if that would
look effective, however decided against
adding it to our video in reflection as I
felt that it looked too similar to the
black and white of the chorus, and I
didn’t want them to link.
I felt that this shot of Kelsey with these coloured
fairy-lights put over the top was really effective
as the colour of the lights matched the colours
in Kelsey’s shirt. I corrected the colour in the
lights and blurred them slightly to make sure
Kelsey was clearly in focus.
I added a fairy-light overlay to the final shot in
the video, as I felt that the colours in the lights
contrasted the black background and the chorus
shot before.
I added a fairy-light overlay
to an outside shot of Kelsey
as it looked unusual, which
linked to our artist’s image. I
also edited this clip with a
‘Hard Light’ video effect to
make the colours of the shot
of Kelsey herself look more
vibrant, which contrasted
with the hues of the lights.

8. I attempted to overlay a still
image of Kelsey onto a clip of
her lip-syncing, however
rejected that as I felt it didn’t
look as effective as I had
hoped.
I did add this overlay of a video over another video
because I felt they linked in well together. In the
music video it went from the shot of Kelsey in the
colourful shirt to her in the black. This broke up
the otherwise long shot (7 seconds) and kept it
interesting.

9. I added a ‘Hard Light’ video effect to three or
four shots because I thought that it improved
the colour quality of some of the shots I had
filmed in front of the green screen & in other
different locations. After doing this, I also
adjusted the colours using the easel icon under
the adjust button on iMovie. I decided to use
these effects not only to alter the colours of
some otherwise poor quality, but to add
another unusual element to the video to
highlight our artist’s individuality.