Practical tasks so far.

So far, in preparation for creating our own music video, we have used existing footage to develop our editing skills. In one task we had various clips which had no soundtrack and a choice of six soundtracks. In this task we learnt how to mark the beat, which we then used when editing together, which we then used to determine which clip we should use and when we should change clips. We also used this skill in the “you wanna what?” and in this case we used the skill to help up match up the video clips with the soundtrack. The skill was particularly important for this task because the singer was miming to the track and so we had to ensure that the soundtrack and videos matched up exactly. This is a useful skill to develop for when it comes to making our own video because it will be important to match the soundtrack to the video clips. When it came to marking the beat for the first task it was about matching the clips to the beat of the music whilst in the second task there was more of a focus on matching the words and the clips up. On reflection I found the second task easier and if possible in my final video I would rather use the second method, however this was something that wasn't possible for the first task as they were not singling in the clips.

In this task we also learnt how to use effects on Final Cut. This was useful to learn, especially as we were using lots of different clips that did not necessarily follow on from one another (especially in the first task) so effects, such as cross dissolve showed us how we could use clips that were not linked together but still make them work. Learning how to use the effects also means that we can improve clips.