Editing Skills Development and Jake Wynne's tips

After spending the morning filming we came back to an editing exercise. Jake gave us many tips on how to edit footage to a track to the highest standard. Some of these tips included:

• adding clicks to the start of the track when filming, so when it comes to editing it makes it easy to sync up all the footage and audio.
• Cutting in time of the beat and changing the shot when the verse/ chorus changes, so it is almost like starting a new paragraph. 
• Edit the whole piece together, making sure it is all in sync, then look at the detail.
• Make sure the footage matches the pace and beats of the track.
• Use effects such as reversing the footage, blurs, and fades to make the footage more interesting. 
• add small narrative but it is more implied rather than just telling a story.
• Make sure there isn't any frame clips (blank, black bits between the clips)
• Looking at Jakes videos, i saw that he didn't hold on one clip for very long, making the videos exciting to watch.
• He told us to save something till the end, don't give everything away in the first 20 seconds. 

From these tips i have a good understanding of how to go about creating and more specifically editing my music video. I think overall throughout the day i learnt the importance of developing a good visual concept for the video, something we can work with and develop our ideas as we go. I also learnt the importance of planning and being organised. Pete explained how it was important to make sure that our actors have rehearsed, we have organised costumes, cameras and making sure everyone knows what they are doing and when they are doing it in order to utilise our time and use our filming time for only filming, to be able to get as much footage as possible. This will subsequently make editing easier as we will have enough high quality footage to fill the whole three minuets. Another one of Jake's tips was that you want to be struggling to get all your footage into three minuets rather than not having enough. You want to not be able to choose between which shots you use and which you don't.