Editing Blog Music Video

For the editing process of this music video my group and I encountered some problems but found it to be a lot smoother than last time. Some of the major things that we faced was not having the content. When we went out to film we thought we shot a lot of good clips that could be very usable for the music video itself. However, all of the usable footage that portrayed the storyline that we wanted only sufficed for 36 seconds of the music video. we also found that a lot of the footage we had was very similar. Most of it was either pans or scenic shots. We still were able to manage with some of the footage we had and make part of a music video. The editing process for us was a little confusing in the beginning. We began using pinnacle studios but encountered the same problems as last time. Pinnacle studios was running slow and we were not able to work as quickly and efficiently as we wanted. for that reason we decided to use iMovie on our iPhones. Pinnacle studios was not running as we wanted it to and noticed that some of our classmates were using iMovie. iMovie moved and functioned a lot quicker and was a lot easier to use. Inserting different clips and shots blended them together cohesively and with the music. The only problem we encountered using iMovie was that it wouldn’t let us insert an audio file. What we had to do was record our song as a voiceover to have it fit into the music video itself. Pretty much everybody in our group was helping out with the editing and different parts of it. However we found it it was a lot easier for each of us to edit a music video and pick the best out of the four. Overall I can say that this editing process was much easier than the last. As well as I will begin to use different software’s more often. The hardest and most surprising part of our music video editing process was figuring out the order of our clips. We did have an order set in mind already, however when we put them all together it did not look cohesive. We spent a good 45 minutes deciding on what order to put everything in from scenic shots two shots that portrayed our storyline. We also found it a little bit hard editing as we didn’t have all the footage we needed. We clearly did not get to finish our music video the day that we edited. We obviously need to go back out to film a couple extra shots. As well as our very conscious that we need a good 30 to 40 more seconds of usable footage that will work with our story.

Music Video Filming pt.2

Due to the fact that our last attempt at filming and plan we made didn't happen within our group we clearly had to turn to something new. For that reason we decided to take our thanksgiving break and turn it into filming time. Throughout all of break we made sure to film most if not all of our music video. We do know there is one little clip we have left to film but want to place it into the end of the video so are not too worried about getting that finished. Anyways we filmed over the course of 5 days and got a good minute- 2 minutes of footage. we wanted tot make sure we got as much footage as possible because we wanted to have room to edit. Our entire filming process began around 3 and ended at around sunsets so 5-6 ish. We went to the beach nearest to all of us with a pier and everything we wanted to include in our video. For example, good view of the sunset and lighting. A few little shops and a small routes where we could take car and turn shots. We had a few people star in out video, bu mostly just two as our main characters. We chose to make a love story as our song was titled sunset love. The song was instrumental so it gave us some leeway in our creativity and ideas on how to develop a story. We had a girl, Kelly, and a guy, Sam star as our two "lovers". Kelly was a sister of one of our group mates and sam was just a friend. At first we were gong to make this a 2 woman romance but ended up changing last minute. Either way we got most of the footage and were able to portray the love story we wanted through the shots and clips we took. My ob in the filming process was filming and taking some shots along with my group mate Macy. Her and i took different shots and angles of the same scene to see which would fit better and look more cohesive with our story line. we wanted to ensure that all the footage we to, once placed together looked smooth and good. Therefore ensuring we got a different perspectives of the same thing would work best. I also made sure that everything in the car shots we used was safe and god to use. As well as made sure anybody in the void was ok with it and was aware of what exactly we were filming and why. My group and I wanted to make sure that everything we were doing wa legal and fell impart with our story. Everything we filmed did fit into the requirements for our video and made sense when put together with added sounds, music, and etc.