Brief Commentary

We filmed our music video a couple of weeks ago. We set up the studio in full black with panels of corrugated plastic that we had dancers dancing behind, we shone lights on these panels and varied the focus of the camera so it was about what you couldn't see. We filmed a variety of shots and angles of this and our other scenes like the two watchers on the sofa and club scene. We are now editing our music videos on mac computers using the editing programme Final Cut Pro. We started by downloading our song onto Final Cut Pro then playing through it and using markers to mark the beat throughout. After this we labeled our best shots so we knew which shots we definitly wanted to use in the video. We then began placing the clips into the sequence and seeing how they looked together before cutting it all together. We used the markers and slowed it down to find the beat and cut on it, we also have a lot of shots where the light flares into the camera so we used these to cut on as well as using the shots that move into black as a means of cutting.


The strengths of our rough cut so far are definitly the cutting between shots because we've made effective use of the flares that appear in our music video to try and hide cuts, also we've taken special care to make sure the cuts are on the beat of the song. The weakness and issue we've come up against in our editing process is the sensitivity of the material we filmed and trying to edit it in a way that is appropriately censored. Another main issue we've faced in the editing process is trying to edit the video so that it is sexually suggestive as oppose to explicit.