Music Video Editing blog.

This past week we started editing our music videos. We got laptops out and logged in. We had to get a SD card reader to import the videos. We plugged it in and downloaded the videos. The files had to be unzipped since when we downloaded it the videos were in a zip file. Then we opened the new folder we created and imported the videos to the editing software. From there we just had to select which ones to use. We had shot a lot of takes so we had a lot of footage to choose from. Sadly the next day after importing the footage we couldn't remember which computer we had used to start the editing. Thankfully we hadn't done much yet so we just grabbed a new computer and uploaded the videos again.
Then came putting the song into the video. Getting the audio was pretty hard since we had to rely on youtube and other websites to get it. We had to go on a youtube to mp3 website to download the audio. I had trouble with that and eventually had to get the teacher to help us. Eventually we got it and put the audio in the program. After that we started putting footage into the video itself. As I stated before, we had some takes to choose from so this took a bit of time. I had to make sure that we put in usable footage and that we didn't mistakingly put the wrong clip in. After that I had to organize the order of the clips. That didn't take much time and soon we were on to editing length and other effects.
Editing the length of the clips was pretty tricky since we had to make some of the scenes match up with the lyrics of the song. In some parts the timing was a bit off so we had to fix that. When matching up the clips to the lyrics we realized that there was a lot of space without footage. So I had to improvise and use footage from the trampoline scene we filmed. We used one different from the one in the beginning of the film. It actually turned out working perfect where we needed it. To trim the clips I just cut off the parts i didn't need and deleted them. After that, we just needed to add transitions and effects. I attempted adding slow motion for the first clip but it was pretty hard to do it. We also added a dissolve transition on a few clips as well. Then we exported it and turned it in.

Music Video Filming Blog 2

We recently finished filming our music video project. We did a lot more and I finished everything I set out to do. We had a little less than half of our video left to film when we had filmed last time. This time, I filmed some scenes at my house instead of at my teammates house like last time. A lot of what  did was the set up before my teammate got there. I set up the dinner that we needed shown in the scene and set up the tripod in the dining room to make the scene look smooth. I also adjusted the lighting in the rooms to look perfect for the shot. We didn't have to worry much about the sunlight outside since it was filmed at night. I also made sure the background of the scenes looked more like a restaurant. That meant making sure there weren't any photo frames or anything that would give away the actual location.
I set up the tripod in places where we needed it and screwed the camera into it. This was a challenge because when we toke the tripod out of its case, a piece of it broke off. The piece that broke off was the one that helped move the lock on the camera part to put the camera on or off the tripod. This made actually putting it together very hard. We ended up finding a way to pry the lock gently so we could lock and unlock the latch. Luckily it wasn't too important of a part. Other than that, the other parts of setting up the tripod went well. I just had to put it in place once the camera was in. I did have to decide the positioning of the camera as well. I ended up having to do a lot of filming because my teammate was the actor for the scenes.
Then came the actual filming part. I had to do a lot of takes because sometimes things would get in the way of the shot and we had to start over. Sometimes my teammate and I would laugh and have to start over again and again. Other times we had to restart because we didn't like the way something looked. When that happened I had to give feedback to the actor and refilm it. I filmed both inside and outside so the lighting was a bit tough to get right. In a lot of scenes we had to film extra in case we might need it later. If a clip was too short we had to film it again. This was annoying but in the end was probably smarter than not re-filming them. One part I did that I especially liked was filming the dinner scene.