Editing Progress

Within our video, there was a section that we were having trouble with making interesting and differing from the rest of the video as we felt that it would be too boring for the audience to keep it the same style throughout. Therefore, as we didn't have much alternate footage we decided to try out different editing techniques. This video shows the normal editing compared with the fading section which was our first attempt at a change in editing style:

For this one, we faded the video in and out to go with the music. However, we decided that this was ineffective as it looked unprofessional and differed too much to the rest of the video. While it was important to create some difference, this was too much change and did not fit in with the video nor the pace of the song.

Note taken from teacher feedback

Therefore we continued trying different editing techniques. We began by adding effects to Georgie's close up shots by overlaying the two vocal parts to create a doubling/ghosting effect. Although this looked quite impressive, we found that it was a lot for the viewer in and also seemed incredibly random within the sequence. In addition, we got feedback from a media teacher who said that the it weakened the otherwise very strong performance, and so it was a shame to ruin this. 

Overlaying effect

Therefore, we continued trying different effects. The next thing we tried was to overlay the DJs over Georgie's performance. Originally we tried to do this on After Effects. However, we soon realised that this would take far too long as we would have to do it frame by frame. So we explored the features in Premier Pro until we discovered how to make it look most effective.

Before overlay effect

As shown in the image above, we edited the shots of Gavin and Eugene by changing their scale and position so that they would be either side of Georgie. We then added the 'screen' blending mode which made them appear as if they were over the top of Georgie's layer:

Above is the effect that it created. We were happy with this effect as it appeared professional yet wasn't overly time consuming. This section of the video ended up looking like this:

It alternated between regular close ups of Georgie, balloon wide shots, and close ups with the DJ overlay. We feel that this allows for enough difference to make this section interesting, but not too much to make it confusing and aesthetically unpleasing to the viewer.