Editing Session - Journey to Work Scene

In our second lesson of the day we decided to carry on editing our music video by starting on the next scene being the journey to work. We looked at the different edits we could use to manipulate the footage in terms of showing the role of repetitiveness and ensure that the edit is parallel with the beat of the soundtrack. We used this through applying the knowledge of Carol Vernallis. We found a particular edit that we thought we would use twice in this scene which was a reverse edit. i felt this added to the quirkiness of the video as it is one of the specified conventions of an electronic music video. The use of the reverse edit ensured we could add another code for repetitiveness as well as add some quirkiness to the video. This quirkiness is a convention of an electronic house music video. We decided that one of the shots lasted too long and therefore had to either shorten the shot or increase the speed of the shot. I felt that this was parallel to the beat to ensure rhyhmic editing was used. This footage was the shot where we tilted the camera up the side of the HSBC Building in Canary Wharf. We decided that if we managed to speed it up the shot would look more quirky and fun whereas if it was simply cut it may have looked boring and look contrapuntal compared to the beat of the music. We concluded today's session of editing as the lesson was over, but we had made a lot of progress in terms of editing 2 of the scenes within the music video. We would carry on editing in the next lesson we had which is on Friday. Overall I felt that our group has made a lot of progress in tems of creating the video as we have nearly managed to edit half of the footage. Hopefully we could use this kind of team work throughout our  music video.