Editing is crucial to making a successful video. Small adjustments through editing can make a big difference by improving various shots. Examples provided show how editing techniques like desaturation, time transitions, and cross-dissolves were used to effectively convey the passage of time and create flashbacks in a music video about a broken relationship. Desaturation created the effect of flashbacks to happier times. Transitions using different shirts showed the passage of days. A tree timelapse also demonstrated the passage of time fitting the music. Cross-dissolves transitioned smoothly between characters and memories to get inside the protagonist's thoughts and show separation despite characters thinking of each other while sleeping alone.

1. Editing Editing is a huge part in making the video successful, without it the final cut would look nowhere near as good as we hoped. The slightest adjustments can make the biggest difference, that is why editing is a huge part in the key to making our video great. In the next few slides I have given some examples of when editing is used to improve the filming.

2. De-saturated Shots We have de-saturated a couple of shots throughout our music video. The reason being is because we want to try and create the effect that these shots are taken in the past. For example the image with the two of them on the sofa, is supposed to be a flashback of when they were happy together. After doing some research into other music videos with flashbacks we found de-saturating the shot is very common and affective. Screen grab taken from Eamon’s video ‘F*** it (I don’t want you back)’

3. Transition This sequence in our video shows that time is passing. It does this affectively by creating the idea that Jon (protagonist) is going to work again and again on different days. His shirt is different each time we see him appear around the corner, again to show time has moved on. By showing that time was passing, it allowed us to show within the music video how the two characters were progressing in their day-to-day lives, without look as if it was too soon. Another time that we have shown time passing in our video is the time lapse of the tree. This again proved to be a success because it fitted well within the beat of the music, it wasn’t too sudden and it of course showed how time has passed.

4. Cross-Dissolve Cross-dissolves are a very common feature in our music video. They are extremely effective when used in the right stages of a music video. The tone and rhythm of our video helps make cross-dissolves all the more useful. In the picture top left of the slide, the clip dissolves from one character to another, showing that Sophie is seeing Jon, as well as seeing her date. The clip of Jon is de-saturated to show that this is a memory of him. It’s also to show he’s not really there. Again the middle image has been cross-dissolved too make it look as though we are jumping into the image of the two of them being together. This is effective because it helps the viewer see that the clip is a memory. We get the impression that we are in Jon’s head at this stage, because he’s looking at the image then we next see a clip of them, of how they used to be. So it’s like he’s thinking as he’s looking at the picture. The cross-dissolve of the two in bed is meant to show how the both of them are in their separate beds, however they are thinking about each other. This also shows the separation that has taken place in the video. Because they are both sleeping alone.