In our to create our music video we have to firstly import all of our footage from the video camera into the Program Final Cut. We then imported our choice of song into the same program and dragged it down to the timeline. All of the shots was then listed in a folder on the program where you can then re-watch the clips and start editing.
Here are a few explanations of what we did and what sort of effects we used to edit the video
This image is showing how i used different effects and changed the speed of clips. We wanted to make the video seem dream-like so we used quite a few crossdisolves so make everything flow together. To add to this dream-like effect and to make it seem more dramatic, we also slowed down the speed of some clips.
This image shows how i changed the colours of a certain clip. We also wanted to change the colour of a clip of the main fantasy girl to black and white for when the main male character starts thinking about her. We done this by fiddling around with the colours and saturation options.
Underneath are images with the Teacher and User feedback from our fellow class mates of our rough cut edit
Taking all of the above feedback into account, we are going to follow the advice off our teacher and class mates to try and make our video better. We are looking to re-film certain parts of the video and to cut down some of the shots as it has been mentioned a couple of times that some shorts were too long.
Because we were looking into the club/house genre for producing our music video, we decided to look into existing music videos of this genre so we could analyse them and see what they have included in their videos. Below is the music video for Pjanoo by Eric Prydz.
This video looks to be set in a dessert where a man is trying to run away from something, maybe escaping from being a prisioner as he has robe tied aroung his wrist at the beginning of the video. He breaks into what looks like an old bar to find water for his thirst. All of a sudden the piano starts playing and what appears to be mini tribal people dancing around the room. I think that this is a figure of his imagination as he is exhausted and dehydrated so is probably hallucinating. Towards the end of the video there are constant slow downed clips of the mini tribal people dancing and in between each clip there in an image of running water as this is what the man desires. The man then realises that the tap is actually running with water and starts drinking out of it with a great sense of desperation. Finally, it starts to rain outside and after the man has his drink he leaves.
In the begininng of the video the camera is following his as he runs, getting a quick shot of the glaring hot sun and then to his face to show the despeartion that hes in for water as he feels so dehydrated due to the terrible heat. I found that certain shots were used in the video at the right time to introduce and exaggerate the change in music. This is shown at the beggining of the video when he falls over and when the piano starts playing before he sees the little native person. The pace of the music quickening is exaggerated when the man frantically starts frumberling round the room to try and find any water to drink, until the piano starts playing which then the beat of the music drops again. When the little native people dance, they are in time with the music so the music video seems like it all flows togther which is highly important.
Towards the end of the video there are random images of the scorching sun and money as this is what he desires. It then switches to shots of a native woman dancing, with slow downed clips that fade in and out of eachoher. This makes the video flow together, makes it seem all dream-like and goes with the type of music that is being used for this video. As the pace of the music builds up the more shots of people dancing, the sand and dripping water flash on the screen which once again exaggerates the fact that the music is picking up pace. Suddenly, a flash of lighting comes in when the beat drops and we return to watching the mini native people dance in the old bar. When the man rushes to the tap to drink the water, there is a close up of his face to show the desperaton in how thirsty he was and this is further portrayed by the shot being slown down. Right at the end of the video it beginnings to rain and there is a shot of the rain beating on the ground with merky water to portray irony as this man wanted so much water at the beginning when there wasn't none then when he finally gets some at the end it begins to rain heavy.
This image shows how i changed the colours of a certain clip. We also wanted to change the colour of a clip of the main fantasy girl to black and white for when the main male character starts thinking about her. We done this by fiddling around with the colours and saturation options. 
