Planning; Music video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro

Above is the first 30 seconds of my edit of Macklemore's song Wings.

As I have done in my edit, I have now developed my skills with Adobe Premiere Pro enough to be able to lip sync the artist with the lyrics. It was difficult to do so because I didn't know the song before doing this task, so I didn't know where the lip sync clips go and I had to work this out.

Firstly, I listened to the song the whole way through to try and get to know it, and I looked through the clips to get a general idea of how I am going to put it all together. One of the ideas of this edit, was to cut to the beat of the song. It was important to do this so the video doesn't look out of place and it looks like it makes sense, and I believe I did this fairly well.

In the short clip above, there isn't any evidence of me using any effects or transitions. But, before I started putting edit together, I had a little play with these to try them out and get used to using them. I believe that these are good to use in a music video because it helps with the flow of the song, and will help massively with keeping the audience engaged because it will help you to edit it together. It is important that you don't use the same effect or transition over and over again, because it may get boring for the audience as they have to see the same thing over and over and I will take this into consideration when I do my video, as I want my video to be interesting and not boring.

I believe that doing this practice edit has been very useful as I have developed my skills using the software, and I now know how to do many things with it. I have got good at lip syncing, which will be very important for a music video. I believe my skills have improved a lot, which is good for when I come round to doing my music video.