Initial Editing Problems

Today we started editing our music video, since putting in the first couple of clips we have come across a couple of issues. The main issue is the order of shots and the jump cuts between the different shots we have use. This means that the video comes across 'jumpy' and doesn't run smoothly, to overcome this we have placed another shot between the two. We had two shots of different people walking in the doors, when we put them together to make them run next to each other, it was clear that the positioning of the camera had changed and therefore a jump cut was visible. We put a shot of the lights turning on to take the obvious cut away, this was the best possible solution which makes the footage run smoothly. Before we added the shot of the lights turning on in we did try to use a transition but this didn't go with the music or look right.

Another issue that we have come across today is with the lighting of the clips. When we was filming, through the camera the lighting of the footage looked fine, now we have put it into final cut and have started editing, the lighting is not how we expected. Some of the shots have come out really dark and possibly too dark to use in the music video. We tried to adjust the brightness of the clips to see if this would change and brighten up the shots, below is a before and after shot of the brightness change.

The brightness does change and it makes the clip brighter, you can see the actors face and costume, but rather than just sections of the footage it brightens the whole clip up. This doesn't make the clip look good as it doesn't look natural, me and daniel have decided that using the brightness in the way doesn't look effective and are aiming for find another solution to make the clips look better.