More is more, less is a bore (Production Blog)

 Dearest reader,

Today I finished editing my music video. 

I was given advice a few months ago by a friend who had already taken this class. The key thing she said was "add as many transitions as possible even if you think it's super corny". I took this advice to heart. 

During the filming process Marvin created a fade out from the scene of Kyra and I reading the letters he "sent me". This opened the door to a fade-in during the next scene...literally. The next frame is me opening the mailbox and getting out a letter. Since the camera is going to be sitting in the mailbox, the scene will start all black and then when I open the mailbox door the light will spill in and I'll reach in for the letter. The door closing on the mailbox serves as another transition. The next transition is sort of nameless because it is a type of fade in but with my own twists on it. The next frame is the camera placed so that it looks like it is within the envelope. This will be a dissolve transition, I open the first letter and I'm smiling, the scene dissolves into opening the second letter and when I open it I look unhappy. 

The final scene is a sort of parallelism between the initial dancing scene and me dancing alone after the character has healed from their breakup. 

The most difficult part of editing this music video was the transitions using the yearbook. The spreads that say "Freshman" "Sophomore" etc. are not back to back. There are pages and pages of pictures in between. When filming this I had to discreetly place a finger in the next spread so I wouldn't loose my place. Putting these clips in the timeline was very peeving because I oftentimes struggled to make it not look completely random. However, in the end I think I liked them. The addition of the spreads as a transition helped to convey when the events were taking place so that the audience understands the passage of time.