Editing session 6

This was our final editing session however, we had no timing constraints as we were staying after school and so Mrs Simpson was willing to let us stay until we had finished.

The last piece of editing that was required of us was to upload the footage of Tavonga's performance as well as various transitions that would piece the footage together in a professional way. We began by uploading who whole video of Tavonga's performance from Beth's phone and it was very helpful as we had the whole song to choose from. I started to insert the pieces of footage where the audio was during the chorus so that we could switch to performance every time this came. By doing this, the audience will be able to see how much the song and particularly the lyrics of the song mean so much to Tavonga during a tough time in the relationship. I applied this from Goodwin's theory of music videos which states that when the lyrics match up with the visuals on screen, the audience can unpick and understand the text much easier. The lyrics ''So Sick of love songs'' speak Tavonga's feelings about the relationship she is in and to help him portray this we used artificial head lighting from a car to spotlight him as he sings,

All of the other elements of the video were uploaded and in narrative order however, our last task was much more difficult and this was the syncing of the lyrics of the song to Tavonga's performance as he sings in too. In order to do this, Beth turned down the non diegetic audio of the song and turned up the volume of the diegetic sound so that we could all tell which part of the song Tavonga was up to. This was very challenging as we then had to turn up the diegetic audio and much this up with Tavonga's lips. Adjusting the volume each time helped us realised whether we need to extend certain clips or cut them in order for the voice to match up with the audio from Ne-Yo's song. This took fine concentration and was a very stressful task as we lengthened one clip, another area of the video wouldn't match up. After a while however, the performance was all in the correct places to be sung and performed by Tavonga on the chorus whilst his lip movement matched up with the audio and once it did, the video looked very professional and now, much more meaningful to the audience. His is dressed smartly throughout this to express that he hasn't lost his way since the relationship got tough and he is still maintaining his representation of a cool, calm, romantic character.

The final task of editing was to include transitions as otherwise the whole video would feature various jump cuts and would be very difficult for the audience to follow and workout. The 'cross dissolve' transition was very useful as this pieced together the clips to show how the action was changing from the perspective of Tavonga to Eboni after the argument scene. It helps to fade in and show how Tavonga is reacting which is very sadly whilst the fade out would focus on Eboni and begin to convey the way that she is trying not to be bothered about it and getting on with her life as she starts to text other people. I then filled in the backwards fade feature in an attempt to create a flashback effect for the audience to see the romance and joyful times that Tavonga and Eboni had before the argument. It portrays the feeling that Tavonga would not be hearing all of these love songs if the fall out never happened and they carried on with the way things were. I dragged this transition in before each scene of a flashback and these scenes
 were: the park bench, the park swings, the holding hands scene and the rose.

This saw the last of our editing complete and the video now looks very professional with a range of effects, transitions and enjoyable content. We watched the video through and together are very happy, we now just need to upload the video onto YouTube from the Macs so it can be evident on our blogs and so that we can be ready for Wednesday's lesson where we show it to the class.