Editing Footage to Music

This is the end result of an exercise in which we edited footage of your choice to a song that we were given to edit to. This was to help us understand how specific and time consuming the editing process can be especially when making particularly short and precise cuts. The precise cuts included cutting to the beat of the song so that the images corresponded to the music. This is done in order for the video to appear more rhythmic and therefore flows much more smother that a video that isn't cut as specifically as the video would feel out of time as well as out of place with the background music.



I found that there were a few issues when editing this video. The primary issue was how time consuming the process is. Therefore i was unable to utilise the entire song in the time we had. this meant that the video ended up being fairly short.

Due to the style of the song, it left much room for experimentation. I felt like the mood of the song could be associated with the quietness and moodiness of outer space. I therefore chose a number of clips which relate to this theme to include in the video.
I then went on to edit these clips to specific beats of the song, with different images symbolising different aspects of the beat such as kicks and snares with light flashing/scene changing. This turned out to represent the atmosphere I felt when listening to the song and therefore is an effective accompaniment to the sound track.

Cutting the different clips precisely to the beat became a challenge, however the specific space that was being searcher for was found with perseverance and trial and error.
I incorporated many different clips from music videos that I knew, one of which was of a drummer drumming in slow motion. I felt like the slow motion amplified the song quite well due to its slow pacing. However the video became more and more abstract as it went on as there were many random elements added.

Overall the task showed me the strong and weak points of my editing skills. I am now more knowledgeable of where I need to improve.