Editing Development

The overview Editing Development took us serval weeks of on-going week to complete, and involved a lot of group discussions about what should be done and how should be done. The development of editing involved lots of mainplulation invovling triming, croping and stabliziing in order to make the film work extactly how we wanted it. 

Our basic idea, was to have all the happy memory scenes at the beginning of the music video which would represent the past and the better times. The second half of the music video was then ameant to represent what things are like now, with domestic scences of the parents fighting and then showing the older sister take younger sister away from alll the fighting and to the park. 

Once we had began filming, the happy memory scenes worked really well and we used a filter of sephia over the top of the clip and adjusted it to make it enhance how this was the past times. Between each memory we used a cross dissovle transition, we tried fade to black but felt it took aware from the video. 

After the memory scenes had been filmed, the next scene we filmed was the domestic house scene with the parents fighting. When looking back on these clips we decided that the acting wasn't realistic enough and the age gap between the older sister and mother wasn't event enough. This therefore made us go back to are target audience to get feedback, they stated that it was too complex and the narrative wasn't clear. We therefore removed these clips and altered our storyline. 

We deicded to remove the domestic scenes, and simply use the happy memories for the first half of the video however play them in rewind. This was a feature of final cut pro which we used that allowed us to select a clip and then to have it play in reverse. Then for the second half of the video we had the young girl shown in the hapy family memories clip, back in these same places but on her own. 

The begining and end of the film uses fad to black to start and end the music video. Throughout the music video there are mostly cross dissolves used. In the scenes of the second half where the young girl is shown on her own we have used a filter used tritone, which is a blueish tone over the clip to create that isolation which the character is experiencing. 

We downloaded Paddy Sloans song from SoundCloud and imported it into the video, to allow it to play in the background whilst the narrative was unfolding.