Music Video Editing Blog

My group has been editing our music video for 2 days. Thankfully, we didn't have any technical difficulty issues with the laptops and desktops in our classroom. We decided to use Laurens laptop because it has Imovie. We find it easier to work with Imovie because pinnacle studios held up our editing process when we were editing the commercial. Our music video isn't due until next Monday at 12:30, I think we should have this done by Friday or at the end of today. We began editing by dumping all of our footage into Laurens google drive. After all of our footage was dumped onto Laurens google drive we transferred it to Imovie. The transfer took a while because we recorded 75 takes. We should have enough takes to fill in takes that we might cut out. 

We used the storyboard to assist us with editing. Our storyboard included different types of transitions that we wanted to use for certain parts of the music video. The first thing that we did was look at the takes we recorded for the first scene. The first scene was recorded in Laurens living room. In this scene we were listening to the music and discussing how much we liked it. We didn't realize that our footage was so long so we ended up cutting a lot of the scenes. We did this so we would be able to add in other takes that we took. for instance we have tons of mall footage but we ended up not adding some of it in because of our time limit. Also, because we recorded in different areas and some areas looked better then others. 

We took the modeling takes that we filmed in Forever 22 and we split them up so that we could add more takes. So when one person walked down the runway the next scene would shot an establishing shot of stores that we went into. Our commercial can be up to 1 minute and 20 seconds. While we were editing we had to watch what scenes we added because some of them were too long. 

To make editing easier Lauren and I thought that it would be better for us to place all of the footage that we plan on using first. After we placed it and edited each take then we would go back and add on things such as transitions or time changes. By time changes I mean slowing down or speeding up footage. We sped up the walking footage because that wasn't something that necessarily needed to be seen. We slowed down the footage of Anishka modeling because it looked extremely well and it went along with the beat of the song. 

We didn't do a split screen because it wasn't necessary. The transitions that we added were: swipe ups, side swipes, etc. Filming and editing this music video was honestly a great experience that I will remember. I can't wait to film again.

Filming Blog : A day at the mall

Today I will be writing a blog about my filming journey. On Wednesday, November 27 my group and I met up at Laurens house around 4 in the after noon. I was the first to arrive, with me I brought my 6 foot led ring light. We thought it would assist us with getting good lighting for our music video. When I arrived at Laurens house Lauren and I decided to set everything up in her living room. A few minutes later Jarvia arrived. Jarvia was responsible for bringing the camera as well as the tripod with her. We set the tripod directly in front of the ring light and attached the camera onto it. Anishcka was running a little late because her mom took a detour so that kind of pushed back our filming process. Anishcka arrived to Laurens house at about 5 o'clock. As soon as Anishcka arrived she changed and we got straight to filming our music video.
Lauren connected her phone to the speaker and the intro to the song played at a low volume in the background. The first scene that we recorded was the scene of us talking about how good the song is. The next scene that we recorded was of Lauren and Jarvia singing the lyrics of the song while Anishcka and I danced around in the background. After we filmed all of the scenes that needed to be filmed in a living room setting we headed outside to record some shots of us dancing in the road. Three of us had batons in our hand while we danced around and one of us controlled the camera. After filming this scene we filmed shots of us walking/partying to the car. We also had the music playing in the background during this shot also. Once we finished filming all of the scenes that needed to be filmed at Laurens home Lauren drove us to the mall, with the supervision of her dad in the car with us.
We arrived to Sawgrass Mall around 7:15-7:30. We parked in the parking garage near the high end shopping outlets. We brought the tripod with us as well, even though most of the shots were going to be hand held. We tried to film a shot of all of us walking across the walkway but the security guard said we needed permission from the mall owners to film. After that we decided to go into the elevator and film an establishing shot of the mall from a high angle. We also did a pan shot of us dancing in the elevators. Once we finished filming the elevator scene I took the camera and filmed my other group members walking across the walkway and into the mall.
Before we entered the mall we saw some Christmas decorations so we decided to get some shots near them. There was a big snowball lit by led lights and people were able to walk through it so we recorded a scene of us dancing through the giant snowball. Eventually we made our way into the mall and recorded shots of us pushing Lauren on the shopping cart. We went into different stores such as Target, Zumiez, and Forever 21. In Forever 21 we recorded shots of us modeling different clothes that we tried on.
After we gabbed a bite to eat in the food court we made our way outside to the arcade. We filmed shots of us playing video games and shots of us playing basketball. After we did that we recorded a scene of us jumping off of a bench near a waterfall.
At the end of the night we had an idea to make our music video seem like a big weird dream that we all had. Once we made it back to Laurens house we filmed our last scene. In this scene we acted like we were shocked when we woke up from the dream. After filming a couple of takes for that scene we were done filming our music video. All that's left for us to do is dump our footage and edit our music video.