Editing updates - Ain't No Sunshine

1. Editing Updates
1.
I started off with the basics by just putting the scenes according to how exactly I wanted them
to be and started cutting off the first few seconds of the start of each clip because you could
hear me countdown before starting a scene. I decide to start off the music video with the
various scenes in which I was walking down the field dragging my wooden chair towards
Olivia, while doing so I would fade this scene in quite slowly to create that suspense feel. I
created roughly three to four different cut away scenes of me walking and dragging the chair,
and between each one there’s a fade in and out to begin each scene because I also wanted to
create a sort of heavier feeling to when I reach my destination. Since I’m constantly walking
to one place audiences may be wondering what’s going on, and it’s that feeling that I wanted
to create within the first few scenes. As I continues with the edits I use one more fade out
then fade back into me centrally framed with a mid-shot of myself singing.
(While putting each scene down to edit I go to the VFX section and colour grade all of
them to black and white. Then I go and adjust both the brightness and the contrast of
each scene in order to get the perfect B&W effect).

2. 2.
Afterwards, I realise that within certain scenes I wasn’t perfectly in time with the words. I
came across this when I had to edit out the disappearing scene. What made it worse was that I
found it very difficult cutting out the time taken from Olivia to leave her seat because even
though it came out pretty well that resulted in me completely out of sync with the song. So I
had to improvise and change it slightly to favour me. So what I did was I ended up not only
slowing down the scene that I felt wasn’t in time with the song I also had to overlap the
scenes that contained Oliva before and after she was in the chair to create the disappearing
scene.

3. 3.
Continuing from here, I use a lot more jump scenes to different areas since within the video
there are quite a lot of memory scenes. Towards getting to the scene where I had to play
various memory scenes in the background with a very long one-take scene was quite difficult.
I had to firstly the main, one-take scene on the top layer and then the memory scene directly
below it. While doing so I had to drop the opacity of the both scenes to make both of them
visible while the video is being played – (that’s why the blue line on the pictures of the
scenes are placed somewhere within the middle). I also had to make the contrast of the
memory scenes a lot stronger to make it a lot easier to see while it’s playing in the
background and to balance it out in the sense that you could tell which scenes were the
memories and which weren’t.

4. 4.
Apart from this editing technique I’ve just been using simple ones like fading to black and
back into another scene. With such a short, simple song being used it’s expected for there to
not be constant “fancy” edits. But I did go against this and added a disappearing trick towards
the ending.
What I did within this screen shot was I started off by duplicating that scene and put the
duplicate on top of the bottom one, shortly afterwards I cut the some parts of the bottom one
and slow down the one on top of it . Then to end it all I fade it to black. What I’ve done here
is after duplicating the scene and putting one on top if I were to fade out the bottom layer
only Olivia would go because I made it specifically clear that within that particular scene I
wouldn’t move so that while trying to fading one layer out I would still be there since I didn’t
move due to a top layer still having me in the scene. I purposely slowed the top layer down
because to make it more dramatic and painful.
5.
There’s still some scenes that aren’t within the music video that I do need to insert but overall
those are the basic editing techniques that I would apply to most if not all the scenes that are
within the music video and the extra ones to come.