editing techniques so far

At the moment, these are particular editing techniques that we have used on Final Cut pro with our music video

- adjusting contrast to fit with the conventions of hip-hop. Creating 'Black and White' direct address scenes to fit within the conventions of the hip-hop genre. Also, it switched up some of the full colour images.



'Lil B- Black and White
- adjusting contrast to fit with the conventions of hip-hop. Creating 'Black and White' direct address scenes to fit within the conventions of the hip-hop genre. Also, it switched up some of the full colour images.
'Here is a Hip-hop music video that uses the black and white effect and this helped us throughout our research.

- Manipulating speed to show repetitions or delaying actions. For example, we used a decreased speed and some repetition when showing particular shots of the main character walking. This created emotion for the audience as it encouraged them to feel as if the character had a boring, repetitive lifestyle, involving drug and alcohol abuse in some shots. This is usually a difficult process to break from when someone is in the grasp of an addiction, therefore we wanted to display the circles of stress and struggle that our character experiences. This demonstrates that it is difficult for our protagonist to escape.


'Eminem- Toy Soldiers'
Here in Eminem's video, the viewer can see that he has used a manipulation of speed by making particular moments slower than reality. This helps the viewer understand the actor's emotions and motives in a clearer sense and this is the effect that we wanted to achieve.


- colour wheel used to darken or brighten particular shots again to fit within the conventions of hip-hop.

- Contrast was played with when we were creating s 'CCTV' shot. We changed the opacity of a particular effect which started of being completely opaque black and white dots ( like a television with no signal). Once we'd played around with the effects, we changed the opacity to being less concentrated and it gave us a good effect of a CCTV camera. This meant the image was slightly dotty, but the image of the character's could still be seen clearly.


'Dizzee Rascal-Sirens' . Here at the very beginning of this video, the artist is seen to be observed by a CCTV camera whilst he climbs a fence. There tends to be a trend of the CCTV catching deviant moments. In our music video we caught a deviant moment involving drug taking, this was likened to our research such as the Dizzee Rascal video,

- fades were used between one of the first scenes. It displayed an image of the sun on one image fading into the background of a sky on the other image. This appeared creative as it brought two scenes together whilst playing with the image of 'Sunshine' - the title of our song featured in our music video is called sunshine

'Ghetto Gospel- 2Pac'. Although it is a slight part of the video, here we can see that in 2Pac's video there is the use of sunshine and an element of hope. This is what we wanted to achieve with our editing techniques. We also incorporated religion into the sunshine aspect and this can be seen at the end of our video.


- split screen was used to show two characters meeting at the same place. Furthermore, this was used to add suspense and creativity. Again, split screens fit into the convention of hip-hop.


'Keri Hilson- Knock you down'. This music video, like our own, uses a split screen imagery. This fits the convention of the hip-hop genre. Again this music video was very helpful with our research towards fitting the conventions.