Production: Day 3 Editing

Today we are focusing on adding the last few clips onto the timeline and adding effects to them.
We focused special attention on the tree scene placed three quarters of the way through our video. The tree scene involves the hanging frames on which we wrote the sentence 'Revisiting memories to bring back a person' which we used in our pitch to describe our music video in a sentence. It was sort of a last minute idea to add the words onto the frame because we were unable to get hold of good photographs that would look relevant to the story of memories and the boy. We thought of having photographs of different places but we thought people might not understand that the pictures symbolise the places she had visited with the boy.

We decided while editing to get the shots of the words and the shot of the artist standing on a hill in Richmond to mix, so it goes: frame/artist/frame/artist/frame. In this short video you can see the girls editing this part of the video.

With the words on the frame we had a little bit of a problem, we thought that because the words were not clear (in the shot of artist walking past the frames to sit on the tree branch) we should probably change it. We put the shots of the individual frames first and then added the shot of the artist walking past them (also changing onto the shot of the artist on a hill in Richmond). We decided to ask a few people what they thought, and here is a video of them watching and commenting on that particular part (this is before we included the individual shots of the frames): 

While looking through the video, from the beginning we changed our minds on the black and white shot.   The extreme close-up of the artist breathing air (where you can see its a little foggy) that we had turned into black and white, we have now decided to change back to colour just because it looks a little odd (with the other colour clips and suddenly it jumps to that black and white one).  

When testing out colours we found a near-to-sepia type colour that looks great with the shots of the artist on the hill in Richmond. The idea is to use that in various other shots, but without ruining the nice sunlight we have in some of the shots.