Editing To The Beat

Before we started planning our music videos, we were given a few task to complete. Firstly, to practice editing to the beat, I was given a document for Final Cut including the following: 

• A selection of 6 different 'rap' tracks 
• Cut down clips from the video for 'We Know Something You Don't Know' performed by DJ formats. 

With these things, I had to create a 'music video'.

This is the original version of 'We Know Something You Don't Know':

The was to create a dynamic video using this footage and specifically editing to the beat. The advantage of using the raw footage from the DJ Format video is that the video has performers wearing animal costumes so there are no issues with lip-synching.

From doing this activity we learned the following

1) By arranging the video sequences on top of each other on the timeline you easily cut through the footage to cut between the various performances.

2) Clicking on the Show Audio Wave Forms to bring up an illustration of beats and structure of the track. This allowed us to edit accurately to the beat and change the pace of the editing to suit the tempo of the track.

3) To create an authentic and interesting edit, there has to be regular transitions between a variety of performance types.

Here is a short clip of an example of our work: