Week 9 - Rough Edit Advanced Portfolio

Grace Watson
31 March 2021
Media Studies
Week 9 - Rough Edit Advanced Portfolio

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Advanced Portfolio - Rough Edit.mp4 from Grace Watson on Vimeo.
Linked above is my Advanced Portfolio rough edit.

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Overall, I'm pretty happy with how my Advanced Portfolio is coming along. Though slightly different to how I'd planned initially, I feel as though it's realistic, interesting and fun to watch. I'm loving the balance between quick cuts and then longer, more held-out shots to match the depressing and nostalgic elements of the song, and especially love the professionalism of the stage shots, where the stage lighting is exactly what we had planned - warm hues of black, purple and deep blue. LOVE! Evident in my rough edit is the synchronisation I've created between the lyrics of the song and the visuals. During the sad and more deep moments, more darkly lit and intense shots (such as the ones of the talent at the graveyard) have been used which furthermore emphasise that more devastated and regret-filled atmosphere and mood. This will hopefully be effective and successful at causing the viewers to think deeper, something I'm really aiming to do. I think the shots (such as the very opening one) where I've zoomed right in to create a more extreme close up feel look fantastic. The extreme-close up feel was not something we had planned to go for in our planning and filming, but I feel as though it's come up wonderfully and very effectively. On a practical level, I've experienced some problems with the actual editing software (Adobe Premier Pro) whilst editing where every shot appeared a different size once uploaded to the software, some zoomed out more than others. I managed to fix this problem and readjust all the shots to get them to a point where I was really happy with them, but then whilst uploading the rough edit to YouTube have experienced a similar problem where there is a large black border around various shots again - really not ideal. I'm going to work on fixing this problem so that my final edit fits the screen perfectly, not only on Adobe Premier Pro, but on YouTube as well.