Editing: Dance Editing and Cutting Between Eras

After getting feedback from Ms Dymioti, we were told that the second dance sequence was not as effective as the first one as the editing style is the same making it boring and predictable. So we tried out a few different things on the dance sequence.

First we tried with split bodies, however as you can see in the video above, it did not turn out as well as we anticipated. Due to their body movements not being at the same point in each era, although it did work for some clips we were not able to make it look aesthetically pleasing for the other eras.

We then tried doing split screens, this worked much better with the dance sequence than it did with the split bodies. However the problem with this was the size decrease as it reduced the impact of the dance, since it wasn't as visible.

But in the end we came up with this final idea:

In our final cut for the second dance sequence, we had split screens however instead of having 4 split screens, we decided to have only at most 3 on the screen so the audience can still focus on the couple. Luckily all the background colours compliment each other making it still nice to watch.

Cutting Between Eras

Seeing that our music video didn't have many interesting editing, we decided to try out our initial idea of cutting between the eras on the beat of the music. In the end we decided on this idea as it was able to help change the pace of the era transitions, also it was a different type of editing, giving our music video some variety.