Letter boxing

Now that our sequence was completely finished and edited with the colour grading all done, we could letter box it all, which means to have two black strips, one at the top and one at the bottom of the screen, which makes the whole thing look more professional. This took up a lot of time too as we had to do it clip by clip again. We then had to change the aspect ratio of some clips as the blacks strips had cut out peoples faces etc so we had to just move the clip up or down so that the whole image fitted into the screen. Another reason why we chose to letter box it is that a lot of other dance music videos have done it so it seems to be a convention of dance music videos. Once we had finished letter boxing the footage it almost looked complete.