Cuts and Transitions

After inserting all the clips to the timeline and cutting them to the correct points, we had to add shot transitions and effects so that:

- It runs smoothly

- The story is easy to understand

- It is clear which parts are flashbacks to the past

I have previously done some of my own research into transitions and cuts and where these are appropriate, for example based on the song tempo and have also looked into different approaches music videos take to show a time difference and taken this all into consideration.

The above two shots show the transition in action. Zoe and I decided through trial and error that the best transition to use was the 'Cross Dissovle' as this slowly blends the two shots. In my previous research into musci video transitions, I found this was a fairly commonly one used. In addition, these two shots had to be clearly separated as they show a time difference between the past and present. Therefore, a more obvious transition should make the audience more aware of this difference.

At the end of the film, we decided to make it fade out. We tried firstly doing this slowly, however, the way we have edited the film means the film carries on slightly longer than the song to add impact on the girl being thrown out. Therefore a long fade was inappropriate as there was no music and so it made the ending too long-winded. A short fade however ended it wuite quickly, but not too sudden making it suitable.

Another issue we had was the length of the music video was set as the original lenght of the song. However, we had cut short parts out of the song, being the film continued for about 20 seconds without any music or film. To cut this down we dragged the 'marker' closer to the end of the film, meaning there are now just a couple of seconds following the end of the song.