1) The document discusses using various transitions and effects in Final Cut Pro X to convey ideas and enhance the storytelling in a music video. Transitions like cross dissolves and lens flares were used to create romantic scenes. 2) A CCTV effect with lowered opacity was used to suggest the idea of being watched without being too harsh. 3) Transitions like cross dissolves and Gaussian blurs helped move between scenes and suggest changes in reality or distortions in vision.

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.