Music Video Editing // Making Abby Look Psychotic

We finally finished the music video. After looking though about 1 hours worth of footage and cutting it down into 3 mins 10 seconds was a lot of hard work. Having to cut 3 mins into 1 seconds worth of footage was very stressful but made the video up beat and exciting.

One thing I challenged was to use a purple tint over the top of the footage of the main character walking through a forest to reach the cage.

This created a sense of edge to make it look out of the norm. It highlights that fact that the main girl is very psychotic and out of place in the real word.   

I also wanted this scene to reflect the attitude of the main girl and the cage. We had filmed a part of the main girl sitting in the cage, kicking and screaming. I knew it didn't fit in well with the beat of the music so I sped up the footage, to again bring that feat factor to the video. 

 This added a personality to the girl and made the story line more clear for the audience.

These a two screen grabs from the video that I used to speed up. 

Another technique we agreed on and also used in our rough cut, is switching between the main girl laughing and crying in the slower part of the song.

These clips were placed when the song builds up from slow back up to fast. The main girl is spinning around which gives a sense of madness.

popping in clips of her laughing emphasises the psychotic side of the girl. And her mad/deranged mind.