Editing Test Shots

Practice footage

Colour Correction 

Through practicing using Final Cut Pro 10, I discovered there are many different ways I can colour correct and adapt the appearance of my footage. My preferred way to colour correct the shots is through the colour board as I found this gave me more control than using the effects bar and choosing one. Although using the different effects is a faster way of adapting the shot, I want my music video to appear more realistic therefore I will be using the colour board to colour correct my shots. There are four different options of colour correction on the colour board as you can adapt the colour through global, the shadows, the mid-tones and the highlight. To get a more natural appearance I found that using the mid-tones and the shadows and highlights provide more of a natural appearance and I discovered not to change too many as that isn't the aesthetic i'm going for. 

Rhythmic Cutting 

One of the down sides of Final Cut Pro 10 is the magnetic timeline as I discovered especially when editing to music, not having the ability to move the footage around freely is irritating. Through practicing I discovered that the way to overcome this is to choose the position tool which allows you to move the footage around freely. This really helped me when practicing editing to the beat. It also showed me that I will need a large amount of shots to make sure I have enough footage to edit rhythmically as it requires a large number of shots filling a shorter period of time, which I need to take into account when filming.