More editing!

In our free today Amy and I decided that we should finish putting effects on Dj's half of the split screen.   We think this has made a clear change in the mood while managing to keep it subtle enough to not be to dramtic. We still had yet to find the right effect to put over our happy flashbacks of Amy and Dj, we searched through all the ones that Final Cut Express already had installed, but there seemed to be nothing that was like what we were looking for. In the end we chose to use a colour tint of Sepia, we took down the amount that was used over the image and put up the amount of highlights that were used. After this we decided that this actually looked really good and went on to put over all the rest of our happy flashbacks- this gave it a sort of classic feel which made the shots seem warm and happy.

Amy and I watched our music video the whole way through as we have now filled in all the spaces. We know that there are many things that we still need to change, like when Dj and Amy are older and 'driving' in the car you can clearly tell they're not because you can see out the back windscreen, there is also that the end chorus of the music video is not quite edited in time with the beat at the momemnt. We decided that we

We also put a black and white effect over the second flashbacks of Dj and Sophie, just so they would match the other ones of him cheating at the start of the video. Then we edited the contrast and brightness because the black and white looked so harsh and didn't really match the rest of the music video. 

We went on to show Ms Mullen our music video so we could ask for her opinion, as we are pretty pleased with what we have done so far. She said that she didn't really understand what was happening when Amy was wearing a checked shirt, because there is such a long clip of Amy just standing looking sad. She also commented on how we needed to change the cutting at the end of the music video to be in time, which is okay because we haven't done that bit yet. She also said that when Dj breaks down, she feels like there needs to be more build to it which we aren't sure what we are going to change about it as of yet. Due to what she said about Amy in the checked shirt we edited in a short shot of Amy which was more close up, and one of Dj where he gets closer to Amy while he is shouting at her, after doing this we felt this part looked much better.

Last week we were short of clips, so when filming was done at the weekend Amy had the idea of filming a bit where Dj walks past her and ignores her. She took inspiration from the from the music video for 'Eminem and Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie' this actually turned out to really suit our music video. The fact Amy decided to hold a beer can also helps to show show Amy and Dj are older in this part of the song. 

Ours

Ours

Love the way you lie

Love the way you lie