My Individual Edit Of Jump The Moon

Jump The Moon



As per the request of the assignment brief, I have put together an individual edit of Andrew's music video 'Jump The Moon' by Ozzy Osbourne. This was actually much more challenging than I first expected it to be. At first it looked like it was going to be easy enough to edit, as there wasn't much to be done to it. The song was short enough and there weren't really any crazy shots that would need loads of care and attention to edit. It seemed like it was going to be easy. But after I started to edit it I realised that it wasn't going to be that easy, primarily because it wasn't my video, and so I dint have a real idea of what was to be done to it. I started to struggle to edit it because the primary concept wasn't locked in my head, it was in Andrews, which was a new thing to me. After some tinkering and thinking I came up with an idea for how I was going to edit the video. I was going to have the song start half way through the video when the bar scenes start to play, but this never came to fruition as there wasn't enough footage to put into a 2 and a half minute video, just from the bar scenes. After some more thinking I decided to just have the song playing across the whole video instead of starting half way through. This also proved to be quite difficult, however, as the music kicks in straight away, there's no build up, making the board room scenes look quite strange, but I think I made it work. I decided to use really fast edits in the bar scenes as this would make it look faster and more engaging, compared to the slow cuts used in the boardroom scenes. Overall, this proved to be quite a challenging video to edit and put together, mainly because I didn't really have a great idea of what the director wanted, and it was a hard song to make a video for with the given footage, but all in all I think I did a really good job at putting it together.