Wrapping it Up

 So now with all of the clips shortened and at the exact length we need them to be at, we only had a few more steps. The first one was to add all the transitions between each shot. Especially for the memory scenes since the backgrounds were the same we needed to ensure that the fade transitions lined up. After adding all of those and messing around with the speed of this transition we had this part finished up. The next part of the editing was adding the music. We tried different starting and stopping points throughout the song. Originally we liked it starting right at the first chorus, but I was also a fan of starting at the second verse of the song. But eventually, we resorted back to starting the music right at the beginning of the song. This ended up working best since it ended right as the instrumental part of the song ended so it seemed to wrap it up nicely. The last few steps were just small changes to make it perfect. The first of these was adding a fade to black at the end of the video. We figured this lined up nicely because it added to the mystery of who was the new girl answering the door in the final shot of the music video. After that, we experimented with adding a song title in the first shot. We tried putting it in the first shot, having a title card and evening putting it at the end. But after many fonts tried and colors used, my partner and I came to the conclusion that putting the song title didn't fit in at any point so we abandoned the idea. With the video seemingly finished we sent it to a couple of our friends to get it peer-reviewed. And of all the friends we sent it to, all of them said they liked it and didn't have any suggestions on how to fix it. So with that all done we exported the final draft onto our computer. This took almost an hour both because of the slow internet and then we exported it at the maximum quality we could. But 2 months after starting, we finally finished our music video that I was very proud of.