Finishing Editing the Pop Music Video

      I decided to edit the music video chronologically, starting with the first set at the mall. The main issue will all of these clips is that they were way too long. So I first had to choose some unnecessary clips to take out. I chose multiple scenes of the main character showing insecurity through clutching her clothing because one scene of this was enough. Any other editing in this section was just speeding up some of the clips to fit in within the time constraint

     Setting two was all of the clips filmed in the food court of the mall. Editing this section was much simpler because there were only about two scenes. Therefore, there were only two clips I needed to worry about when it came to timing and cuts between those clips. Even with that in consideration, these two clips had to fit in a very short part of the song, so they were still over time. To get them to fit into the time limit, I sped up the first clip which was a medium close-up two-shot and cut some of the beginning off of the POV shot. I also used fade-in transitions instead of jump cuts because those used less time.

     Then came the third set, the bathroom scene, which was the most difficult to edit. This was because there were around 10 very short scenes making up this part of the music video. To make this part seem more like a montage, I used jump-cuts between every single clip but one. Jump cuts add more time onto each clip, so I then trimmed the beginning off of each clip which gave a more montage effect anyway. The only clip I left at full length was the POV shot of the phone, so the audience would have enough time to analyze the important post on the phone

     The last set to edit was the four-bedroom scenes. At first, there wasn't a time constraint until I realized the overhead shot with a slow zoom was out of sync with the lyrics to the video. This meant I had to cut some time from the beginning of the mid-shot of the main character storming through the door. What took up the most time was the over-the-shoulder shot of the main character texting, so I sped it up by 1.75. This was enough to satisfy the time constraints of the last clip, which meant I was finished with editing. I finally sent it over to my other two members for any final editing they would want to do.