Editing

Stop motion

When editing the music video we discovered when we did the first part of the video (stop-motion girl getting out of bed), that when we had to change the speed we could not change the speed of all the photos at the same time. Therefor we had to go through each individual photo and change the speed form 100 to 2500 after each of the photos had been individually cropped. This turned out to be very time consuming but gave a very effective result. Towards the end of the music video and the last scene where the girl gets into bed, we decided not to crop the photos but change the speed from 100 to 400. This created the same speed and same effect but took less time, although was still time consuming.

Stop-motion blur

When editing some of the scenes such as the mid-shot of the girl dancing around the trees in front of the sun, and the long shot of the girl twirling in front of the trees. We experimented with several effects to create a unique look. In the end we discovered that the stop-motion blur was a really good effect to use and fitted in well with our other stop-motion scenes without being as time consuming. This effect took the girl and copied the film so it looked like two shadows of the girl. This goes particularly well on the scene with the girl dancing in front of the sun set as the twirling gets more dramatic in time with the music. We also had a shot that was very long with the girl sat in front of the tree and just smiling while playing with her book. This scene was a bit too long and became too boring. Therefore we decided to put an overlay in top of the twirling and reduce the transparency. We all thought this effect was good and took away the boring factor.

Party scenes

For the party scenes at the end of the video we cut the footage, then we went from different shot to different shot and cut in-between to shots of Hannah spinning and of her miming the words with the plain background. We the faded between each of the different shots so that they faded in and out, we really liked the result of this.