After
filming my music video I am now in the post production stage, therefore with
the footage that I have I need to edit it in order to make the finished video.
Firstly as I want my video to be in black and white with slow motion and
reverse effects on it, I need to use the Programme Adobe After Effects. This
programme is easy to use and if I need any help then there are many tutorial
videos on YouTube. After affects will enable me to create the music video I
vision as I can use this programme to enhanced my video. After using
After affects I will further edit my video in Adobe Premiere.

The affects that
I used in after affects included making a rain effect, this I had to learn to
do by watching YouTube tutorials. The way I found to create the rain was to use
the dissolve tool and play around with it in order to get the correct
consistency and length of rain. I then had to change the colour of my footage
to black and white, but to make sure that it wasn’t too dark or too light I
changed the levels and brightness.
Furthermore
I used After Affects to manipulate the time of the video, this included making
the video slow motion and playing the video in reverse. This too I learnt from
YouTube Tutorials. It was easy to manipulate the time I just had to left click
on the footage click on time and then change it from there.
Once I had
edited my footage I started to edit the music video in Premiere. I did this by
having two sets of footage, the footage in reverse and the footage in normal
order, I then picked the edits I wanted to use an cut them down. As some of the
speed of the edits were not slow enough I edited the speed by highlighting the
footage, right clicking it and editing the speed/duration, most of the footage
is at a 25% speed, where as others may vary depending on the type of clip. Then to edit the clips and shots I used the cut tool and placed the clips in the correct order.
Then to edit my photos and to create my magazine advert and digipak I used PhotoShop. I used this to edit the photos such as turning them into black and white, manipulating the levels and brightness and making the images symmetrical. I also used it to add in text such as the album title and album information.
All of the Programmes that I used were easy once I had learnt what I needed to do.