Editing the Party Scene

Once we had filmed our party scene we captured the footage on the school computers; as we used a GoPro camera for this instead of the camera we used to film in the studio, capturing this footage was far easier than with the other footage. 

The strobe lights that come on in the studio once the music starts to build up to the drop helped to set the party scene, and help the transition between the two locations look more natural and less random. We also began to alternate between shots from the party and shots from the location gradually, and this editing between locations became faster paced when the song starts to pick up pace, and eventually becomes a flicker between shots that become harder to differentiate between. This gradual movement into the party scene is effective as it builds excitement in tandem with the music.

This is our use of the mirrored shot, inspired by The Throne's 'Paris' video that I spoke about previously in my blog as inspiration for our video. This piece of editing is effective as it creates the feeling that there are more people in the room, in affect enhancing the party-like atmosphere.

This mirrored effect is continued in this shot, where it was used as the camera moves closer towards the person wearing the poncho, and eventually zooms so far into the poncho that the next shot is a close up of the poncho, and rapidly zooms outwards. This is a good way to transition between shots as it differs from some of the other techniques we used such as dip to black, cross fade and scroll out from centre.

In the party sequence, we picked up the pace of the editing and made cuts to the beat of the song. We also reverted back to this shot of the DJ every time the music got to a certain point every 8 bars, where it sounds like the synths are dropping again.



We gradually began to include shots of the performer from the studio towards the end of the song, and slowed down some of the footage to match the fade out of the song. This is to match the pace of the song and bring it to a close effectively.