cutting exercise

to practice cutting music videos we were given 4 different songs and different clips of footage to play around with. we had to chose one of the songs and then cut the footage to compliment the music. it wasn't as easy as it sounds. the footage didn't have any lip syncing in it so we only had to concentrate on the cutting. this gave us an understanding of how many cuts music videos actually have. the average for a 3 minute video is between 200-300 cuts. that's a lot more than what we're used to. we cut it together the best we could and then went round and watched them ll. some people had put effects on to make it look more visually interesting, others just cut it well. it was a good exercise to do because it showed us how to form a music video on final cut.