Unit 18: Cinematography

 D2: Discuss How The Final Edit Has Complemented Recorded Cinematography Effects to Create Meaning  In this report, I will explain how I have created meaning in my music video from the different editing techniques I used. Here is my final completed music video that I edited. This song is called Nightmare by the band Set It Off. I have applied a wide range of editing techniques to create our pop punk/rock music video. This genre of music is known to be a little dark. Below are some music videos that we used for inspiration. I will compare scenes from our music video to scenes from these professional music videos to show how we have followed genre conventions and created meaning.               Better Without You- Evanescence                        In this music video, you can see Evanescence have used red lighting to symbolise the rage that Amy Lee is feeling while singing the song. Red is usually associated with the rock genre too.                              I'm Not Okay- MCR We a

  P7: Apply Post-Production and Editing Techniques   In this report, I will explain how I have edited our music video. I will show what effects and transitions I used to create the video and how I have exported it. This is my completed Nightmare music video. I edited this using Adobe Premiere Pro since this is a professional software that they would use to edit in the media industry.   Here you can see I am setting up my Nightmare music video Premiere Pro file. As you can see, I haven't imported any folders or footage yet, I did this after creating the file by importing my media.                                       Editing Techniques As you can see from the timeline, I have cut my footage down. Nightmare is a rock/punk song, it is fast paced and I used this to my advantage. I used the razor tool to do this. There are two main reasons I cut the footage the way it is. Firstly, this means that the footage matches the beat of the music and this makes the music video look more profess