I have already given my experience when actually filming, but there are a few key things to point out about editing. Most of my cuts were for one of three reasons; I was speaking immediately after or before, The sequence was far too long and I wanted to keep the action going, and I needed to time everything to music.
I used group choreography from my first shoot, but I cropped many of the shots and eliminated their music and/or their choreographer Johnathan yelling at all. I wanted initially to have the jump be four freeze frame images and then to continue in real time after the last freeze. Yet the music made it much better to have motion-then a freeze frame at the top.
I was really only playing around at fist with it, but I would say I adopted a style of every cropped shot fitting into rectangles that traveled around the screen with each shot. I sped up the second group choreography sequence to keep with the music and then ended with a dramatic slow shot for the "calypso jump"
My weakness in this project was definitely trying to match the sound and db of the song "Black and Gold" with Alexa's narration. In all, I did not have the best equipment (microphone or camcorder) because of the time constraints with my actor not matching up with when I wanted to sign out equipment. However, I had a clear vision-with a story I was both connected to and knowledgeable about and feel that I executed it to the best of my ability.
My rough cut #1 and final are also on the playlist!
Final Cut Playlist
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