Construction Of Music Video

When making my music video, I used Adobe software Premier Pro, where I learnt loads of new skills, as I had never before experimented with this software. At first the process was rather grueling, and I struggled getting to grips with the basic concepts of the software, but as time went on, I learnt the basic and some more advanced skills in order to produce a music video.

The first step I took in regards to the construction of my music video, was adding my mp3 clip, to my timeline, I downloaded my song from a YouTube converter, as I had no other resources in school.
I placed the song, on the audio layer of my timeline, so it was the main source of sound for my video.
The next process was to add my video clips into my timeline, I had several layers on my timeline which enabled me to insert my videos, as I used some to layer eachother. However I decided to use Video layer 1 as my main source for my clips. Having more than one layer, allowed me to keep my footage more organised. When adding my clips, I had to make sure that the miming was in sync with the music, that is why I chose to add the song first, as it was easier to adapt the footage to the music, that then song to the clips.





After organising the clips into a good systematic order, I had to make the video look authentic, my first step was to start adding effects to my video, the most frequently used effect, was where I reduced the opacity of my two clips to 50% then placed one on top of the other, this allowed both clips to 'ghost eachother' I think  this was a good aspect for my video, as its one scene, that tells two stories, so I think that is a good feature for a music video to have.

As you can see from the image above, both clips are layered on top of eachother, and the opacity is reduced to 50% in the effects tool bar, the result of these two effects are featured in the video on the right hand side.

Another important aspect of my video, was making sure that it ran smoothly, and did not look glitchy, so to sucessfully do that, I had to add transistions to several clips, a transition can be placed at the beginning or the end of a clip. Most of the transitions that I used were 'dissolves' being cross or additional. Here is an example:

As you can see from this printscreen, there was three clips of my artist on one scene, but by adding a transitionto each of the clips, it allows them to fade out at different times, this is shown also on my timeline.