Preliminary Task Editing

Today we edited our Preliminary Task Music Video together. We started with 3 individual videos, one of me, Rian and John and at the end of the lesson we had one completed Music Video to Busted's, What I Go To School For.
The editing process is defiantly harder than expected, with the macs hard to get a hang of, not only the iMovie software. Importing the footage was hard enough, as there was alot of high quality footage it took a lot of time to load onto the editing programme. As it was our first time we had to edit through trial and error, and after a while we pretty much got the hang of it.
Keyboard shortcuts is something we found useful, as it was easy to get confused using the mouse. The keyboard shortcut we used the most was the CTRL & B. This shortcut was used for splitting a clip into two, which was a really important aspect of the editing process, spliting clips and moving, or spliting clips and deleting.
As it was Music Video that we was creating, linking the video and the music up was an essential when making our preliminary task look as professional as possible. This involved alot of muting the song to hear the original video and muting the video to link it together perfectly. This may seem like a easy task, but it defiantly was not. There was a lot of trial and error involved, sometimes playing the same clip over and over again.
We still wanted to get a non serious vibe in the video, as the basis of this task is to be learning to techniques. So at the end of the song there is 3 guitar strums, so we took 3 outtakes from the video and editing them in time with music. This was something which although we had fun doing, it was great practice for the quick editing our actual Music Video is going to require.
It was good to learn the basics on iMovie as this is the software we are going to using for our actual Music Video task. iMovie is a software I am not familiar with so after this Preliminary Task I feel way more confident. I am excited to upload it onto YouTube and watch the final product.