Editing Process

In order to make our final music video me used a variety of different editing techniques.

• Split Screen Colour - We used a green screen to be able to change the colours of the background on the chorus. This worked well as we split the screen into 4 with a person singing a line in each screen.
  
• Chroma Key (Green Screen) - We used Chroma Key to remove the green background and also used a spill suppressor to smooth the edges around the person.

• Stop Frame Animation - We used this on the bridge, walking backwards and the band spinning along the steps. It was hard to do and get right but the finished effect looks really good. We also used stop frame animation to create the band spinning across the amphitheatre.
  
• Band Performance - For the band performance we filmed each verse several times from a fixed camera point and moved the band around, we then cut together the shots to give the video a jumpy feel. We have used colour corrector to raise the whites and the saturation to give the shots a brighter feel. We added stripes on the screen during the performance to keep the colour theme running thought the video.

• Mexican Wave - For this we filmed it as three separated videos from a fixed camera point, we then cropped each video and put then in sequence to play simultaneously.
  
• Stripes (Between the Lips) - between the lips we have used key frame animation to show stripes moving across the screen, every other stripe moves across the screen from left to right and visa versa. We uses the stripes to link keep the theme of the colours going throughout the video.
  
• Text - for the lines in the song 'Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay!, Ay! Ay! Ay!' we decided to show its visually on the screen as text and shapes flying in, in time with the lyrics.
  
• Gradient Wipe - at the start of our video we have used a gradient wipe as a transition from our stop frame animation into the band performance, this works for this part of the video because it is where the tempo of the music changes and shows a change in the visual in time with the music. For the gradient wipe we inserted an image from one of our shooting locations.