1) The document discusses using various transitions and effects in Final Cut Pro X to convey ideas and enhance a music video story. A lens flare was used to add professionalism and romance. 2) Superimposing shots and adjusting opacity helped suggest someone being watched without appearing too harsh. 3) Transitions like cross dissolve were versatile for cutting smoothly on beat. Short transitions also allowed effective layering of images. 4) Various transitions helped convey different ideas like distortion or flashbacks. Consistent transitions maintained synergy across shots. Keyboard shortcuts made editing more efficient.

2. I am extremely happy with the outcome of using the lens flare,
as it added to the professionalism, was a very easy and quick
to use. I feel it also adds perfectly to the natural sunlight in the
shot, along with the idea of this scene being the perfect
romantic scene that Ben Austin idolizes.
The lens flare was an
option in the transition
section, and we was
able to hover over the
transition in order to
see the effect.
This was useful as it saved time that would have spent if we
were to test out each transition and move each one that
didn’t work, this would likely have caused our artist to knock
out of sync with the track.

3. We wanted to create the idea of a superimposed shot
to connote the idea that the female actor is being
watched, so we wanted CCTV in there, as we thought
this would be a clever way to break conventions.
So therefore we shot a cctv and layered the shots
on top of each other in the timeline. However, we
didn’t like the end outcome as it appeared too harsh
and unprofessional, therefore we came up with
another idea.
1st attempt:
2nd attempt:
We decided to superimpose a shot of cctv and
lower the opacity to connote the idea of being
watched.Along with the “timecode” filter
and we placed it in the top
right corner. It originally came
with a black background but
we lowered the opacity to a
grey to make it less harsh,
and we are extremely happy
with this outcome.

4. Cross dissolve was a
very useful transition to
use as it was very
effective and was very
versatile as we could
use the transition in
pretty much any shot.
When adding the transition, we were able to decide how long we wanted the transition to last, e.g. if we we
wanted it to be a longer transition the blend would be slower and would last longer, but if we we wanted the
transition to be quicker we would shrink the transition in the timeline, this was useful when we wanted to cut
on the beat in a calm way in order to suit our pop acoustic genre.
Also the use of a short transition such as cross dissolve would lead to
some very effective superimposed images, e.g. this one with the female
actors eyes along with the trees in the background. The outcome was very
successful and I enjoyed how many options there were with transitions.

5. Due to there being so many options on final
cut pro x for transitions, we were able to find
the perfect one to connote the idea we
wanted to portray to the viewers.
Therefore, “gaussian” was an
extreme blur transition, which
would help connote the idea that
Ben’s reality and vision has been
distorted sue to the news. This
was an effective transition for
when the first shot of Sophie with
the new actor Joe is introduced,
as also creates a blurry shot for
the audience.

6. The montage at the end of the music video to represent their
relationship was easily illustrated using final cut pro X, as a
“flashback” transition was used to cut fro Ben singing into camera to
then a memory of Sophie with the coloration edited.
We had not yet used this transition in the music video up until the
montage as we felt it would most effective if it was only used once,
and therefore would have more meaning.

7. These were just come of the effective uses we made with final cut pro x,
overall the software was extremely useful in helping to connote ideas to
the audience and enhance the story line., and create synergy as well as
adding professionalism.
The use of synergy was created throughout
the music video also, as we used the symbolic
sign of candles throughout the music video,
but we also used the same transition to
introduce the candles each time which was
similar to a flash. Therefore, when the
transition appeared the audience could
anticipate a shot of candles to represent Bens
love. Also the use of the keyboard when created the music video
was helpful as it would have been time consuming to only
use the mouse, as “cmd b” was used for blade and “cmd m”
for a marker and the marker was extremely useful when we
were wanted to cut on the beat and sync up the track and
the artist singing.