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For this section i have inserted a lot of text to pan the lyrics across the screen as they are getting sung to allow the audience to get a full understanding of the song and see what the words mean with the emotion of the actor behind them.

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For This section of the video i have put a long shot of me stood in the distance on a post looking into the distance and dramatically grabbing my hat of my head and shaking my hair free to show a symbol of him breaking free as he feels comfortable in his environment.

The music then changes in speed as the chorus kicks in so for this part of the music video i have placed two shots of me rolling down the hill while smiling at the camera to show that the actor is starting to feel free and is able to express himself, i then have a shot of me running down a path and jumping and clicking my heels i have done this because the music in the background is quite energetic so it matches the mood of the music.

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I then linked the next shot with a fade to black transition, I have done this because the video goes from a shot of the landscape to a shot of me again, so the fade to black symbolises a change in setting. The next shot is an image of me sat on a cliff edge as it slowly pans to a shot of the water where i'm looking out at in the distance. I have done this so that it gives me a blank canvas to put text over the shot of key lyrics in the song "i gotta learn things" this connects with the audience and show that i am deeply thinking about life.

I then added a cross dissolve to link to the next shot, which is a shot looking down of the cliff to the rocks below with text over the top reading "Gotta see what it feels like" i have included this shot as it shows a calm sea breaking onto the rock and it sets a calm tone.

I have used the side ways drift animation on the text so that it smoothly glides on and off the shot, with the Sign painter house script font as it looks similar to handwritten text making it looks like the text is taken from the lyric page its self.

I then used the circle open transition to return the video back to shots of me, i used the circle open effect as it is almost like the audience is being brought back to the shots of me instead of the first person view that they saw on the previous shot. This shot then cross dissolves to a shot of me inside the cove walking along the waters edge and staring out into the ocean, followed by a ripple effect that is used to make me disappear and reappear behind one of the rocks, the ripple effect is very effective as it symbolises the water that is in the shot.  

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After this i used a cross dissolve transition to transition to the next shot of me continuing to run down the path and jump over a puddle, however for this shot i positioned the camera at a low angle to experiment with different camera angles.

After this I cut to another shot of me running in a different location towards a rock which ended in me jumping off the rock, however as i left the rock I  used a cross dissolve again to change to a underneath shot of me jumping off the rock to again try new quirky camera angles, i then used another cross dissolve to return to the original shot, which i feel made a really good effect.

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In todays session i was able to use an image stabiliser on one of my shots, i also added some more transition effects to shots and some text on some other shots.

Image Stabiliser.

I had to use the image stabiliser on one of my shots because i wanted to slow the clip down to 22% however because the original clip was a very fast clip so the image was just one big blur, the image stabiliser removes some of the blur to make the image visible. 

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Today I did my first experiment with slow motion in my project, to do this i used the clip editor that comes with i movie, and i changed the speed of my shot to 30% so that my jump would match the drop of the music, after the slow motion i placed the remainder of the clip un edited to make the shot flow back into normal speed instantly to show the change of pace in the music.

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In today's editing session I have managed to add 3 new shots into my piece and 2 new transitions.
The first shot that I have added is a shot i have used to show my lip sinking skills and show i am able to put a piece of video over sound that matches. I have added a cross fade and a cross dissolve transition, I have used the cross fade to cut from a lip sinking shot to a shot of me walking into the cove, I have done this as it is shows a small change between scenery and outfit. I have used the cross dissolve to cut between two different shots of me walking down the steps of the cove, I chose to do this as it shows a passage of time allowing my audience to see me getting closer to the water in the bottom of the cove.