AT: Editing Process

For our music video we were editing on adobe premiere 9.0, this was extremely faster than the previous version we were working on. This made the editing process go alot smoother, than previously when creating our movie opening, especialy as we were dealing with more footage at a faster cutting rate.
The main editing technique we used was 'image control' this enabled us to change the brightness, saturation and contrast, this is what made our performance look authentic as we had a wooden backdrop in the drama studio were we filmed our performance and made it less evident that it was a studio instead it was meant to be a live performance on stage. For all our performance shots we turned the brightness down, and contrast up and then colour saturation up. This made the performance look much more authentic and gave more interesting lighting.To keep interest in our music video we intercut the performance with our 'abstract shots' In our abstract shots we decided to have it juxtaposed with the performance and used it to increase our cutting rate, for example when the tempo builds up in the chorus we have constant intercutting of driving along shots. This was then transformed into black and white again using the image control turning saturation right down (black and white) contrast turned up to bring out the backdrop more then brightness down to create a better feel for it.

We were inspired by Martin De Thurah's work especially the use of slow motion, this was to connote the rebelion in a different way to normal conventions, this is evident in the indie genre breaking mainstream conventions. In order to slow down the footage we had to shoot it in 60FPS, then slow it down by half speed.