FInal Cut - Things Learned from Animatic

Once we started using Final Cut Express to create our animatic we learned new things such as how to import music and shots into the program, even overlaying text and images. Also we learned how to add effects and transitions to our video. Also we kept accidentally finding new things, such as voices overs and other things we didn't believe we'd be using.

For the beginning of our music video, we wanted to reflect the slow pace within the music into our video so we added a nice fade in/out transition to incorporate the idea and therefore reflect the slow moving pace. The list of transitions and effects can be seen on the right. For cuts between a chorus and verse we used an additive dissolve, which appeared a lot quicker and sharper, depicting the quicker pace of music.



For some of our shots, we wanted to convey camera movement and pans but it was close to impossible for us to present this within our drawings, so instead we used a text overlay to show certain pans and movement that would occur when we film the music video.

Some of the screenshots shown give you an idea of the other effects and tools we could possibly use when editing the final video. Blurs and Lens Flares may be helpful as well as changing the colours of the video by using such extra effect such as 'Colour Correcter'. We could use saturation or contrast tools when making our video to liven it up but we disagreed with the idea of saturation as it wouldn't be fitting to our video.