For this task I had to take different pieces of footage and apply music music to it to make a music video. There were various techniques that i had to do for this music video in order to show that i was able to successfully create a music video. These techniques were to sync the music with the different clips, ensure the rhythm of the music is matched with the movements, use split screen efficiently and be able to use chroma key.
The first thing that i done was to import the music onto the project and then apply it to the timeline. For this I had to go onto file -> Import and select the music track from the files on the computer.
After I placed the music into the project and placed it into the work area I then had to import the separate clips into the project so that i was able to start creating the music video.
Now that the separate clips were imported I then had to cut them down as they had areas of black screen which I would not be able to use and therefore had to remove them. This meant placing each individual clip into the workspace and then going through the clip and cutting out the black screens. I done this so that it was easier to work with when looking for what clips to place at which point in the music. Below is the the original clip in the timeline.
This screenshot shows after I have cut around the black screens.
After cutting around the clip to make the black screen and the footage into different parts I then selected and deleted the black screens.
I then repeated this process with each of the clips and placed them on their own different line so it would be easier to move them how i wanted to after I had completed this step.
After all of this I then moved it so that there were no gaps between the clips.
This was the part of creating the music video which was the hardest and took the most time. For this part of editing I had to re watch and listen to the song multiple times in order to know what part of the clips will go best with the music. Having the clips on their own line made this process much easier becuase it meant all i had to do was move the clips left and right to place it in the right place and not have the other clips getting in the way of each other.
I used a few effects for the music video in order to mix it up and would also keep the audiences attention. The first effect that i created was split screen which is where there will either be different clips playing together on the same screen or the same clip copied so that it is seen more than once at the same time. The first step to creating split screen is to stack two or more clips on top of each other on the separate lines.
The next step is to double click onto one of the clips which will open up the effect panel for that clip where the rotation, opacity and size of the clip is shown and can be modified. The thing that need to be changed in order to create this split screen effect is to change the size of the clip and make it so that the clip covers a half of the screen. In this programme the width and the height of the clip is linked which means when one is moved so is the other and this has to be turned off in order to change the size in the desired way. It is turned off by clicking on the icon that looks like two chains that are linked together.
When the clip is moved the other clip will be seen behind the clip which has just been changed and you should be able to see how the split screen will work from this. Once the clip has been modified to how you want then i repeated the step on the other clip to show all of the clip next to the clip and then the split screen is shown.
This is the finished product of creating the split screen. When this effect is used in music videos it can be used to create different effects whether it be a contrast of the two clips such as happiness and sadness or emphasis by showing the same thing from two points of view or two people experiencing the same thing.
Chroma key was the next effect that i created for this task and this is when the colour in the video is distorted and in this case it is removing the colour from the video but leaving in one colour. To do this I clicked on the effects panel in the bottom right window and searched for 'Leave Colour' (on different pieces of software the name for this effect is different but still performs the same task. After finding the effect I dragged it onto the car clip in on the timeline. Once I done this, a list of options for this effect appeared which changed how much the effect would change the clip.
For this effect i wanted to keep the colour of the red car on the clip but remove the rest of the colour and this required experimenting with the effects settings in order to get the look that i wanted. After selecting the colour that i wanted to leave i then went on to change the settings for tolerance of the colour, so that the higher the toloerance the boundary of the colour is increased and allows more red to be shown. I also changed the amount which is the amount of colour de-saturation i wanted to occur.
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