Editing

It's taken a lot of time to edit my music promo to a higher standard. I have been editing my video everyday this week and it is still not 100%, so editing is definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be. There are certain aspects of my music promo that I have struggled to edit, for example I have found it hard to include my main character singing along to the song as I only filmed a few clips of him doing this in my second location. This was definitely a mistake, as I have not been able to include him singing in my first draft because having him singing in a different location to the skate park at the beginning of the music promo doesn't look effective. I also found it hard to include my male character lip sinking at the end of my music promo as the lyrics that he sung don't match up to the end of the song. Therefore, for my second music promo draft I need to re shoot my male character singing so that I can include this throughout my music promo.
I am really happy with some aspects of my music promo, I like the different use of camera angles which I used when filming and found this really helped me when it came to editing and making my music promo look more interesting. For this first draft I have not used many effects or editing techniques, instead I have focused more on where I will cut things and which order I want things to be in my music promo. For my second draft I am planning on playing around with the effects so that I can work out what looks best and what suits the mes en scene of my music promo. However, I am not planning on changing this in a drastic way as I am happy with the warm colours that feature in my music promo as they connote romance and I think they work well with the lyrics.
I have tried to use a variation of fast and slow cuts throughout my music promo, to give it more of a variation and make it look as effective as possible. I have also used slow motion as well as speeding certain footage up, I found this can look quite professional when done subtly however I want to keep things quite simple when it comes to editing as my music promo could easily look overdone.