Rough Cut 2

This is a link to my second rough cut, with this second cut i took everything which went well in my first one included them in this then added to it with my improved ideas. I am a lot more happy with how this second cut turned out. This rough cut still includes the instrumental version of the song because at this time the vocals section haven't been recorded yet, but it doesn't make a difference to who the video will be. The cut is also still not colour corrected in any way, the clips which are used are raw.

Improvements and changes:

• The first change which i did for the second cut was with the titles at the start of the video. In the first cut the text which showed the name of the artist and name of the song were on their own with a black background. What i changed was i separated them, removed the line in between and had the text over the first shot, the first title is the name of the artist and this changed at the same time as the instrumental has a change to show the name of the song. I made sure that the length of the text was on screen long enough for the viewer to read it, this wasn't hard because it is just a short name and one word.
• The second change i made was with the first verse section. The problem i had is that not all the clips linked and there was a mix of water themed clips and woods clips, i felt like this caused a messy effect and got feedback that it didn't work very well. This is what i changed in the second cut. I used two clips at the very start of the video which aren't linked to the woods, but then from then on in it all links together surrounding the footage of josh playing. 
• The other thing i changed in the first verse and the whole video was in a few places i changed the type of transition from straight cut to cross fade. I didn't over use the cross fade because this can look cheesy and not necessary, i only used it when the clips were similar and they slowed well together.
• The first chorus is done in a pretty similar way tot he first rough cut, i didn't think they was many problems with it, the only changes which i did was change a few of the clips so they link together even better.
• The changes i made to the second verse section was that i only used clips that related to water, unlike in the first rough cut where i used footage which had no similarities to the others.
• The end of the video is very similar to the first cut the only changes made is that a few of the shots are different because i used one of the original ending shots somewhere else in the video

Overall i am a lot happier with the second rough cut. This version flows and works a lot better altogether because now there are no unnecessary shots which have no link to the shots surrounding them. There are not many changes left to fix in my next cut, i will try out different things but the big changes which i wanted to make i made in the second cut. The thing i will do next is colour correct the footage.