This was important because I had to match my lip syncing to the music, and to do this I had to constantly keep rendering, so that I could be sure that both the music and the artist matched.
The first thing I did when I started my project on Premiere Pro was to import my music into the project, and then move the track audio into the timeline. This is so I could edit to the music, this allows me to cut on the beat and many other useful things while editing a music video.
I decided that I would first add in my 1940's footage to my music video timeline first. This was simply because this mainly a performance based part of my song, thus meaning the footage linked up to the lyrics of the song, showing the story of my artist.
 |
| -9.0 brightness, and -22.0 contrast |
Once I had added this footage in, I used and effect from Premiere Pro called 'brightness
and contrast', from this I played around with the numbers to see which of them increased the quality of the footage, I settled with -9.0 for brightness and 22.0 contrast. As you can see- from the screen shot on the right - the footage looks much better quality and the colours stand out more.
 |
| Change of the opacity |
footage clearer and of a better quality.
Next I started adding in my present day footage, this was to be added into the chorus and bridge of the song. During my planning I had this idea of a bonfire clip, this had changed during the production of my music video.
So, while I was editing this footage I decided to layer it with the footage of my artist preforming. By layering it on top of this footage I was able to change the opacity so that the main focus of the video was on the artist, with the vague sparks and flames of the fire on top her.
This I found to be a very powerful effect, as it's quite different and does make the artist herself stand out.
