Editing My Music Video

Today I started the process of editing for my music video. First I loaded up Adobe Premiere Pro and imported all the footage I had got from my filming. As well as the footage I alos imported the soundtrack into the software.

 I then quickly made a title slide to go at the beginning of the video saying who the artist is, what the song is called and my name. This was very simple to do and only took a couple of minutes.

After this, I then got to work. I put the track into the work area and started looking through my footage and cutting it up to make into a video.

I started with the first lot of footage, where Lisa first meets Tom, and where she is looking on her laptop. this was fairly simple to do as I had the initial idea in my head so all I needed to do was look for the best footage, cut it to size and put it with the music.

Once I had gotten started it became was easy, until I came up against a problem...

  

 

Some of the clips had become over exposed when I filmed them and other clips had stayed at the correct exposure. At first I thought this would be a big problem, but after asking for assistance I found a solution;

I went to the Video effects, then to Colour Correction and there was an effect called 'Luma Curve'. This allowed me to adjust the brightness of the clip to make it brighter. After spending a bit of time playing around with this I managed to get it to where I wanted it to be;

The result was not perfect but it was good enough for how I wanted it.

Once I'd put all the clips together I decided to add transitions to some of the clips, to make the whole piece more fluid and less like it was just one scene after another.

 There is one section of my music video where Tom and Lisa are sat at the table talking. I got several different clips of them talking, laughing, drinking etc but wanted to make it look like time was passing, therefore I used the 'Film Dissolve' effect as I felt that this effect made the clips look like time was passing, it also gave the clips a more professional look too.

After adding a few more effects here and there and looking at the clips to see if there was anything I could change I had reached the end. My music video was done. I got a few people to watch it before finally exporting and uploading to the internet and all the feedback was good, so I went ahead and finished it.