Editing

To Edit my music video, I have chosen to use imovie because of the specialist editing features it provides in a simple and understandable way. 

These include:

• clip cutting, close clip cutting
• clip cropping, ken burns etc
• a range of filters e.g B&W
• a range of imovie templates
• visual effects e.g lens flare
• sound editing
• removal of sound, addition of sound effects including voice-overs,  
• the ability to add photos and video
• add text - can be used for video credits
• the ability to export files with control over their quality, and viewing devices

This is an example of me performing a form of sound control on imovie. Here, I split the sound from the motion clip, so that each could be seen separately. I then selected the green clip below the main image and deleted it. This way there will be no additional sound over the main video, distracting the audience from the main audio. As shown in my research, this is generally disliked by audiences because it takes away from the meaning of the whole song. As this is only a short clip from the video, I have had to repeat this process in producing the entirety to ensure that any background noise is removed - as in a professional music video.

Because I directed the video, there are voices in the background, in addition to the song being played as it is acted out. I utilised iTunes' feature which allows the audio to be 'split' from the video, and then deleted,  realism and professionalism. Before deleting the audio completely, I will initially turn the volume down so that it cam be raised if i need to do any fine precision editing as I continue to work on my music video.

I made use of the marker tool, which allows me to add small pointers on both the audio track on and on any images used, this means that i know where certain frames need to come in, or marking an important part of the song.