Editing Process

Here are a few notable effects we used in Final Cut Pro. 

This is a split-screen/square box effect we used for the drug scenes. It was a good idea to use this effect to show both seperate times the girl buys drugs and how desperate she is. 

We used a blurry effect on the scene where the girl takes the drugs to emphasis her state of mind and how dizzy and high she is. It was quite straight-forward, all we had to do was go on effects, video filters, and blur. 

For the sunset sequence, the actual footage was too long to include in the video so we decided to fast forward it by modifying the speed. This particular scene wasn't inspired by, but reminded me of ' Waiting For Tonight' by jennifer Lopez. 

This overlaping images was used to show that the girl is going crazy and losing her mind. This particular scene was inspired by a Bow Wow video where he was losing it. 

This is a proper split-screen we used near the beginning of the video. It was inspired from Destiny's Child's ' Emotions' and we wanted to use this effect for a long time so this was a perfect opportunity, to show two of the characters side by side. Notice one side of the split-screen is darker than the other. This is to symbolise the nature of their troubles, one girl is having relationship/love problems and the other is having drug addiction problems.