Analysis part 3 - editing

The editing of the music video was by far the longest and most drawn out process of the project by far. Through the course of the music video it is easy to see how much time went into this. As one can see when they watch this video not 2 seconds in there is use of cuts and transition effects that go parallel with the beat of the opening of the music.
When analysing this piece of work one must look at the individual techniques executed, things such as the use of cross dissolves transitions, visual effects, jump cuts etc. One use of cross dissolve is when the camera pans through the branches of a tree which then dissolves into the visual of me (lip-syncher) on top of the rugby post singing the song, a second one being where the camera pans and then centres on the rising sun, it hen cross dissolves onto my head in the centre of the frame lip-synching to create a graphic match.
The use of fade ins and outs is quite obvious to the audience as one cannot help but notice these effects being used just 2 seconds in as multiple shots of the landscape and scenery are being shown then a fade in effect is used to once again go to the person doing the lip-synching. The visual effects used in are things that change or distort the images shown much like the one where the second boy/ love interest (Alex Fanner) shows up. As he walks towards the camera the blur on screen begins to lift and brings everything into focus. The second use of this technique is that in certain scenes where the main character (protagonist) of the music video in a sense is talking to the love interest. It’s to make those sequences seem like a dream sequence. The cuts in this sequence are used to make it show that a lapse of time has passed, this symbolises how much time the two have spent together and how when sitting on the benches with each other the two are slowly moving closer to each other each time.
A multitude of jump cut are used towards the end of the music video to show that time is neither going to and thro like it was in the first half or so of the music video. This in particular is most obvious in the 8-section part of the song where the lip synching is taking place on a stage. The use of this jump cut technique is more just to show off a variety of angles of the lip-synching and to give a sense of depth to the music video so not all lip synching shots are just static shots of me standing in place moving my mouth staring at a camera lense.

to be finished . . .