GC: Editing development

• Today after having all the clips lined up, it was clear that the performance needed some differentiation from the narrative. So in order to achieve this effect I placed a lens light leak clip over all the performance shots on video line 4. I then set the opacity of each leans light leak clip to about 35% before taking it down to 25% after playing the footage back and realising that the light leak footage was too dominant over the performance.
• This done, Andy created some title text using Adobe Photoshop which I then imported into the Premiere file to use as text overlays on some of the opening shots to be used as titles for the video. It was as simple as dragging the image onto the timeline on top of the desired shots and setting the opacity to the right level so as not to make the text appear too dominant but still enable it to be easily legible.
• Once all this was done it was simply a job of tweaking the video to iron out any minor faults. This included one lip syncing performance shot which had been nudged one or two frames out of time and cutting down one narrative shot before time stretching another very slightly in order to ensure the visuals cut in time with a drum beat on the track.