Cutting your video

With music videos, the way in which the editors cut it goes along and is in time wit the music. In Jay Sean's Down video it begins with a couple of cuts then there is a lot of movement rather than using cuts to keep the viewer focused. Because there is a dance routine there is little need for lots of cuts, its just one routine but from different angles. We now have the task of not only using visuals to go with music but cutting the video in time with the music.

The task we did as a class this morning was to watch La roux- in for the kill and clap every time the video cuts, and in doing this we realized how the video uses cuts when there is not much going on sound wise which we will use in our video.