Editing skills put in our work

Editing skills put in our muisc video

When editing I feel as if it was important to also make sure that the edits we use in our video are  similar to music videos of our genre. We want to ensure that we edit our song in similar inspired styles of our genre. Prior to and during editing we watched various music videos of our genre to get a feel of the type of edits and special effects used. In the video below are two examples of edits that we've included into our video so far.

From 0:00-0:05 seconds is quite a slow fade transition between two establishing shots. We noticed that in a lot of UK afrobeat music videos that are very similar to our chosen song (talking about a particular girl they like) have a lot of fade transitions, especially in the beginning when establishing  particular artists or group of people, we do go on to introducing our artists in the same format of this. A UK afrobeat music video that does this is YFS- ALE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-slKKhtL7c this is seen at 0:27-0:38. I fell that having slow paced shots and fade transitions especially at the beginning, sets the mood of the song an clearly introduces who will shown in the video. Also it's a nice way to set the scenery in time to the beat of the song.

The second edit that you see from  was especially inspired from a UK grime/rap video. We really liked it and thought the best time to use it is at some point during the main artists verse on the base track. Our song is UK afrobeats interlinked with UK grime and our main artist is the rapper and so it would make sense to use that sort of edit on his base track, it fits in and suits with his part of the song more than the other parts. 
Insspiration muisc video : Kilo Keemzo- Boogie dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aroX6CqQ1SM @0:45 seconds