Editing Techniques

We are planning to use a split screen in our music video. We feel this editing technique would highlight the contrast between the two scenes that we are planning to use; the urban street and the white studio. We are going to create this effect in Final Cut by having one main image and then cropping and overlaying part of it above the main image to create the split effect to match the two images up. To make the split more obvious we would probably use a thick black line down the two images allowing the bright bold colours in the outfits to stand out and represent the artist and the video.


This video by Guv'nor presents a different type of split screening where they have filmed two shots of the same thing and cut them in half and put them together to create the mirror image effect in the video. However, we want to create the effect where we want to make the two screen more obvious and have it as a feature where the main character in the video looks as though, at some points in the video, that they are pushing the screen away from them. Relating to the aggressive lyrics, fighting against her emotions.






This video by Diptych presents more of a simple split screen effect where they have used a simple black line between the images to split the screen up. This idea looks good as you can use relating images all in the same shot. We would like to use this form of split screen in our music video at certain points as we could use it to split the contrasting locations and also make a divide between the chorus part of the song and the rapping deep lyrical part. We could also play about with this effect and edit it so it looks, on some parts, like the main character is pushing the screen away. This effect also helps to show what is going on in the song and the story behind the lyrics. Enabling the audience to get a good idea about what the lyrics mean.



Even though this is an amateur video created by students; it presents the editing effect of screen splitting that we want to use and so is a good inspiration to see how other students have created this technique. We would probably use just a half split screen on our music video though rather than splitting it into four or more screens, as we want to clearly highlight the contrast in settings and emotions.