Professional advice: Blueprint Editor Workshop

Our group was fortunate enough to have a Blueprint Film Foundation professional editor to come in and deliver a workshop which helped us to learn more advanced editing skills. 
Dave spoke for one hour about different editing techniques eg luma key and how to alter colour, saturation levels and also how to use filters effectively.


This enabled us to edit our music video to a higher-level. In addition, we added effects and filters  to develop the representation of the star image; we enhanced "warm" and "cold" shots and this also improved our narrative.

In some of our shots the lighting wasn’t the same, making the shot where he says "Till it’s gone, gone away" very average and boring. After the workshop we were able to up the saturation and change the lighting so it appears  exactly same in each shot.

Furthermore, he also advise dus about cutting with the rhythm or on the beat. Some of our cuts were off beat.


He said "It might take a while to zoom in really closely and use the arrows but it’s well worth it because you can be sure each cut is perfectly on beat". After this, Kenza and I sat down together and sorted out the cuts and we are really happy with our learning and journey. The end product is now starting to look more professional and advanced.

I personally feel that the workshop helped dramatically with our progress and we are both now a lot more confident with Final Cut Pro X.