Process of Editing

I did all the editing for my music video in Final Cut Pro because it's considered as a 'professional' video editing programme that I'm familiar with and was the easiest to access.
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Below is a small video I put together when trying out different ways of editing one particular sequence (Last line just before first chorus, "That is old news I'm not entertaining that, baby!")
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I tried out three different ways of editing this sequence but the differences are very subtle. In the first edit, I left the portion of clip where Victoria says "That" (before 'baby') unedited. In the second edit, I chopped in single-frame clips from her sitting at the table so that they rapidly flashed and in the third edit, the clip of Victoria singing stutters like it does when she throws the paper at the end.

In the final music video, I went with Edit 3 because I thought having the stutter twice worked well and made it look less like it was a technical error, however, I swapped that clip with one of Victoria with tear streaks down her face because it put across more emotion. The editing technique is still the same.

*Epilepsy Warning - Flashing Images*

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. Opening Sequence

. I revisited the opening sequence of the music video to make amendments to the studio shots after filming more footage. The opening lyrics are as follows:  . "I don't need no, no No, no, no (no) I don't need no ghost" . Below is a screenshot from an early edit of the video showing how these lines began (MVI_3202)

When I recorded more studio footage, the lip-syncing for these lines improved, so I went back to change them. I started by adding in an additional clip that cut in the middle to a shot of Victoria with tear streaks down her face (MVI_4114). I wanted to introduce that 'side' of her from the very beginning, so that it didn't seem like a continuity error when it kept switching later on. 

However, this didn't look right, so I changed it to open with the 'tear-streaked' version (MVI_4114) and then cut to a different 'normal' version (MVI_4113) which I think works better.

I then went to change the following line "I don't need no ghost" and added in another clip of Victoria with tear streaks down her face that faded in and out. However, I don't think this looks very good and so I will probably leave it as it originally was.

Below is a video showing all the above described changes. Edit 1 is the original, earlier edit (seen in my mock exam draft). Edit 2 shows all the changes I made. I will keep the changes to the first line, but not the second.