- As well as the vignette effect we have added to our montage and flashback shots, we created another .psd in Photoshop to use above the shot in which Electra receives her award. We did this to disguise the fact that we did not have enough extras to fill the audience.
- As you can see in the first screen shot, there are clearly seats that are empty. But by adding the .psd we can disguise this. This creates verisimilitude within our video, as it is realistic that an award ceremony would not have empty seats.
- Another aspect of editing we are working on today is improving the montage. We feel it needed a greater variety of shots, so we have added footage from earlier in the video (for example, shots from the opening sequence) to this section.
- As well as this, we are in the process of adding transitions to the montage to give it a more stylised effect. Once again, we are using the cross-dissolve and dip-to-black transitions. We feel they are very effective technique, as they create a more interesting visual, as well as being a convention of many music videos of this genre.
- To counteract the static nature of some of our footage, we created an artificial zoom in Premiere Elements. We did this by adding a keyframe at the first and last frames of the clip.
- Firstly, we zoomed in to a larger percentage at the first keyframe, but leave the end keyframe at 100% zoom. By doing so, the clip will automatically zoom out at a consistent rate from the first to last keyframe.
- To create a slower zoom out, you zoom in to a lesser extent at the first keyframe. We also used this technique to create the movement of the diamond at the very end of the video. In this case we also used a keyframe two thirds through the duration, so that the zooming would slow as the diamond fades to black.
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