It helped me to understand how to get specific shots and that it was best to shoot the whole song when filming rather than just the part you need. It also made me realise that to get different angles and lots of footage to choose from when editing as we might have captured extra footage that is good enough to use.
A classmate decided to edit the footage we got as a group of all the different performers and put it all together to fit the music. He suggested some tips to us that he learnt when editing:
- fast cuts on parts of a track with many layers on it works positively for the viewing experience. With this in mind, I will use a large amount of cuts, when textually the track gets more layered.
- the importance of lip syncing is apparent in a music video. Sometimes, if the lip syncing was off or there was missing footage, it would work positively to use the performers actions which fitted the lyrics.
I will keep this in mind when editing our music video. Below is the final video of the edit he made...