Editing

We started editing our music video a few days after the shoot day was finished. We had 2 two and a half weeks to finish the whole music video, which Steph and I found quite difficult, especially as our video had lots of special effects. To start off with, we made bins for each type of shot, as well as those we wanted to use and those we weren't planning on putting in the final cut.
Once this stage was completed we then went on to doing the first narrative; the rappers. Before doing any of the editing we put the track down on final cut pro. We then put the first runthrough of the rap over it cutting it to the beat. Luckily our song has a very prominent beat which is easily identified, so syncing the sound to the image was very easy. Once this is done, the hard part comes when trying to layer other shots of the rappers over the top of it as we were only using smaller parts, maybe only a few seconds long. We only had a few shots of the rappers singing the actual song, so although we were limited in how many shots we could use, it made the process very simple with the selecting shots and inserting them, as we didn't have to go through many shots to find a specific movement or action we liked, as they were already in the shots we had due to good direction on the shoot day. We used shots from all of the runthroughs of the song, as well as the short shots of the rappers repeating the word from the end of each line.
After we had got the cut we wanted with the performance, we added the other element of the performance, like the reactions to what was happening to the alien character, and the part where the ship starts to fall apart. I think we managed this well, and were able to sync the rapping perfectly amidst the chaos of the scene.
The final part of the editing process was to put the narrative strand in. This was much easier as the shots were all similar, and all we had to do was to select a shot that could fill in the spaces that we had specifically left for these shots, which matched a certain point in the song.
Now all that had to be done was the after effects.