Editing blog music video

We edited both Monday and Wednesday, Ms. Katz had also gone over the storyboard . The reason she was doing this was because many were incomplete. Originally mines was ungraded due to the fact that it was considered incomplete. It was considered incomplete because for some reason my pictures of the storyboard kept coming out blurry. I mainly found this confusing because I was the only one in my group who struggled with that problem. This has happened to me in the last storyboard blog. Eventually l fixed it by downloading the  picture from my gmail once again, then taking a screenshot. Then I clicked add photo from phone on the insert option. Where I originally went wrong was just copy and pasting the photo. That what I was mainly doing during editing.

Due to the fact I was fixing a blog, Carla was the one doing all the editing. What she mainly had to do was just fix little things the transition for starters. When all the clips were first put together, there were about five transition bumps. What I mean by that is, you can see where the clips changed, but in a more rigid way. But that was something that could easily solved by cleaning up the cross cutting. Cross cutting is a way of merging two scenes with different locations together. One example of that you’d see in our music video is, when we were at the park and jumped to the beach. Or cleaning up on the dissolve in the transitions. Dissolves are when the scene dissolves or merged into each other. Besides the transitions there wasn’t much to be left to edit.

As soon as Carla was done with editing, she came over and showed us the final product. I was honestly astonished as to how it turned out. I say that because, even though I knew it was going to be good I couldn’t really picture until now. For example, how the ambient sound and dialogue blended into the score was amazing. Ambient sound is basically background sound (uncontrollable). An example was the noise of waves at the beach or the voices of other people at the park. Overall I believe that sound bridge is what truly cleaned up the transitions. This is because it helped ease into another scene, so that it wouldn’t look random clips just dropping in. The ending of the editing process was a very fun experience because it was so humor filled. Like when, the video would pause while I was making a weird face.

Filming Process Music Video

This is the part two of my journey in filming the music video. The first thing I had to do was find out how I was going to arrive to the beach, which was where we were filming. My original ride said that he could not make it, so I ended up catching ride with one of my group mates. When school ended I had waited outside for her to pick me up so we could go to the beach. Once we arrived we met up with our other group mates and went to go change. We had to keep the same clothes from last time because, we were still filming. I had walked around the nearby parking lot but eventually found a bathroom. After that, we chose wear we wanted to record, which was underneath the pier. Finding a location was easier than I thought. That's because it wasn't as crowded as I thought it would be.

When starting to film I had a hard time with the shifting out the choreography. Due to all the sand and like lack of balance, it was hard to do that while trying not fall. But we quickly got through that once I finally got the hang of it. When we got to the middle of the song is when we really started dancing. This was because, the moves we were doing corresponded best to the lyrics at the time. The lyrics were, “ Now I don't want you back for the weekend Not back for a day, no no no”. During this, we were just shifting places throughout the dances. It ended up landing last on me for switching places. This second part of filming experience was actually very easy. It went by much shorter and expected which left a lot of free time to reshoot somethings. 

Once we finished filming, we gather led our stuff and left from underneath the pier. We went to change back into our original clothes and sat in the nearby sitting area. There, we went over all the footage we just recorded along with our previous recordings from the park. I felt like this was a way of making sure we’re organized from editing. Once that was done, we called it a day and said our goodbyes. In that same area is where my group mate and I waited to be picked up. After going over past projects, I would say I had the best filming experience in this one. What made this one the best was, how hands on it was. Like other projects were just in one area, but this one we got to choose wherever we wanted to film. I feel like the fact that it was more hands on, it allowed me to help produce better quality work.