Construction - Editing Day 2

Today's session of editing was more productive then yesterday. The reason for this was because I had a memory stick with the song on, and was able to add it to the video. This was helpful as it meant that I was able to put the video clips to the music. By being able to do this it made me more aware of how long the video is going to be, and what clips I am wanting to fill the space with. Adding on to this, even though I had the song for this editing session, it was still difficult to know where I wanted to add the performer clips during the video.

Once the song had been added to the video, I then decided to reordered the video clips that I had already added of the two youngest couples. When reordering the video clips, I also used this time to add more clips to fill out some of the empty space.

After reordering the clips, I then added the final shots of the oldest woman in the video. The reason I decided to add her last was because I was just doing it in order of who is going to appear in the video. When adding the final woman to the video, I found that I was just find the right placement of when she should appear, as I was unsure whether or not I should have added her at the beginning and then, go back to her at the end or her just appear. After editing I decided to start of with her in the beginning reading a letter. The reason I decided to do this was to then match the video to the lyrics at the point in time, as people like the idea of the two linking to one another.

The final thing that I did in the time that I had was adding a couple of different editing effects. The editing effects that I added to the video, was slow motion. I decided that I was going to use slow motion on the youngest couple in the video, when they are running up to the tree, and running around the tree. The reason I decided to do this is because most people usually change the speed by making it quicker, however people usually forget about the idea of slowing down the video. Overall, I think that this works well, as it fits with the timing of the video and makes the video look more interesting.