For my mock exam as I only had test shots due to being unable to film because of weather restrictions I took advantage of the editing programme I am going to be using when editing my final footage. At first, I spent a fair amount of time understanding the programme and trying to get the jist of where certain buttons and actions are that will be useful. Importing the clips and the song was fairly simple, as was muting the original track on the video footage.
I then explored the transition effects. In my video, I want to use dissolve effects; hence why I experimented with this. This dissolve effect was quite difficult to get the hang of as it dissolved the clip into black - which I found unflattering and not conventional of music videos or the genre I am studying. By editing the length of the dissolve and adding a dissolve to the following video clip (while making them overlap slightly) I discovered that this got rid of the black screen, thus dissolving one clip into another.
After experimenting with the transition effects I wanted to add aesthetically pleasing visual effects to the video itself. After scrolling through the long list of effects the programme had to offer I found many that I thought were pleasing, which you can see I've used in my mock video. The effects could make a boring video seem very interesting. Once adding the effect to the clip, the programme gave me the option to edit the effect (e.g. make the effect more intense or less intense). Overall, I found doing the mock exam very beneficial as I feel very familiar with the editing process now and understand how to edit my final video effectively and how I want to.
