Post Production Editing

 This blog was taken from my teammate Angelo's blog as he was entirely responsible for editing

https://angelo-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/2023/03/music-video-post-editing.html

Music Video Editing

First, before anything I imported the ‘Ghost Town’ Audio into Hitfilm ( My editing software )

I named it appropriately 

I lowered down the volume to not make it too loud

I started importing files we have on the drive

By using the ‘import’ button at the top left corner, I imported the videos to Hitfilm

I Edited the videos by cutting them into pieces ( By using the clipping tool )  and finding the best scenes to use for each part, Following the storyboard. I also used jump cuts on appropriate beats to show time leaping forward.

 I experimented using the letter box in the music video, But It didn't sit right for me to use it so I removed it. 

Done with the first few scenes, I imported the next videos for our next scene. Which was the football one. 

Like before I edited the videos according to the beat and used the appropriate scenes.

This scene where he Shoots the ball and misses is done purposely. As the lyrics said: “ I want to hit the red dot”, But he didn't hit it, He tries but He still fails. It’s foreshadowing the bad events in the future. 

The first few scenes of the beach and football scenes are pretty bright. This was done by Increasing the saturation value as shown here. The higher the number, The brighter the scene gets. I increased the saturation to show the scenes in a positive light and to conotate good meanings to the audience.

Through the use of Jump Cuts I finished Jason’s Going home scene, Still with bright saturation and effects. 

After finishing the football scene, I worked on the Intro for My music video Which featured a Title card of  ‘Ghost Town’. I did this by using the text box option in Hitfilm and positioning it correctly with the right font and size to fit with the Video in the background.

After finishing up the previous scenes, I Finally did the breakup Scene. At first The scene was exactly like the one above. But after some thought, I made it black and white to give a more emotional and sad feeling. 

I also Made the screen zoom in a lot more, to emphasize these hard hitting texts.

I added some more beach scenes. 

To create the feeling that multiple days had passed by, we used a fixed camera and shot Jason multiple times doing various actions. Then in Editing I jumpcutted the video to match the timing of the beats and in addition to that, I Decreased the saturation of each jumpcut to show that He’s going deeper into depression. 

Using the black & white and Black diffusion effect I managed to make this scene look depressing and sad.

I slowed down this specific scene by using the rate stretch tool, this was done to create a more emotional meaning 

To Show Jason is still feeling fuzzy and unconscious, So I blurred the video. To show the transition from blurred to not blurred. I cut the video into multiple smaller pieces and changed the level of blur for each cut. 

I used a jumpcut to make Jason’s Wall Punching seem much harder than the original

In this Scene I zoomed the footage ever so slightly and zoomed out, To create the feeling of Chaoticness.

Using the correct timing and and cuts I managed to create a seamless transition from the camera going down to Jason  falling into the bed.