Development of Music Video

I began by importing all of the video clips I had filmed off the camera, and then added them all to video editing software 'Sony Vegas'. I then started watching each of them and deciding which ones I wanted to use and which I didn't.

I had a 'bin' of files which I would drag onto the main timeline when I wanted to use them. The video is composed around the audio track. It flows with it, following the wavelengths of the sound. As there is no real story to the music video, there is no real storyboard. The storyboard is the wavelengths of the music. It was these I followed when editing the video together.

The hardest task was lining up the video to synchronize with the audio as I just mentioned. You can see in the image the audio wavelengths and where some parts sync with the video. But you can't see what the real challenge was; lining up the music with the guitar plucking, strumming and syncing the lips with the vocals. This took a lot of analysing of both the music and the video.

After putting all the parts together, I added a black and white filter so my video was in the style I wanted. I also left a small section in the middle of the video where the music stops and the artist has a drink of milk. I left this in because I thought would add a sense of reality to it, allowing viewers to recognize the video isn't actually real. Similarly at the end of the video, I faded the black and white into colour and left a small section where the artist stops acting. When all the editing was done I added titles at the beginning reading who the artist is and the name of the track, and mixed down the video for upload to YouTube.