Initial Editing Problems

In the beginning parts of our editing phase of our music video, we have already encountered a few problems, mainly in the ordering of shots and dealing with jump cuts between the different shots we have used., meaning that the music video doesn't really flow properly without visibly seeing the jump within the footage. To fix this problem, we have decided to put in other clips from our footage so the jump cuts are not as obviously visible. For example, the door is opened up by one of the actors but in the next shot, as the door is closing, the camera positioning jumps. So to fix this, we put a clip of the room's lights turning on and then put the footage of the next person coming through the door. We will not be able to use this method every time, however, so we will have to find another alternative of fixing this problem.

Another problem we had was with the brightness adjustment of the clips. Upon looking back on the the footage we filmed, a number of the shots were slightly too dark to possibly use in the final music video. Because of this, we tried to adjust the brightness of the clips to see if it made thing any better. A 'before' (left) and 'after' (right) still of this change shows the difference made. As you can see, the light from behind the actor shines directly in the lens of the camera, creating the 'silhouette-like' figure of our actor instead. The brightness effect does make a difference, you can now see the actor's face in the footage as well as other features, however it does now make the clip look like it has unnatural light, something that we have decided doesn't work, which has led to the decision not to use it at all
on any of our clips.