Overlaying effect - Editing

During my editing process, I was constantly thinking of ways to demonstrate the changes in time. I came up with the idea of overlaying similar shots to show that the male member of the relationship was no longer there. I set the opacity low so that the audience can see both. This is effective as in the same shot, the audience can see the flashback clip initially which fades into the shot of just the female protagonist. I am happy as to how this turned out as I think it is the most indicative shot that reveals the narrative.

As I did not use a tripod while filming there were some issues with imaging and rotation. Firstly I had to get the two shots (one of the two of them and one of just her) in the exact same place on the screen. Then I played around with the colouring of the two shots, the first shot had a warm filter overlaying and reduced saturation while that faded into the shot of her alone in bed with a cold filter overlaying. In order to make it fade I had to lower the opacity of the two clips to below half so that it wasn't to strong and you could see the two clips blending.

In the final music video I think the shots look really effective and shows the two different before and after states to the audience. It also adds more emotion to the music video as the audience are able to connect to the protagonist and engage in the narrative - sparked by the enigma of the loss of the male character.