Editing for Music Video

   Hello. My group and I are so happy that we got to work on this music video project. After filming and editing it I don’t think we could’ve been more proud of how it turned out. In the first filming project we did we used our school’s camera and editing program, Pinnacle Studios, but this time we decided to try out something different.  We all agreed that it would be more convenient to shoot all of our footage a phone.  Additionally, we decided to use iMovie on our phone to put together all of our footage and edit because we were all more familiar with this source of editing and it is more convenient. Since we all have experience using this tool, we thought it would be to our advantage to use this instead. In the end we feel this was a very smart decision.  Not only did we save time by not having to dump or risk losing footage we also were able to edit at any time, not only when in class.  So after we filmed everything we needed, we began to go through our in depth editing process.
  To begin our editing process  I started by opening up the app iMovie and clicking on the import application.  My group and I collectively watched through all of our footage and favorited the ones we wanted to use and put it into a separate folder so that they would be easier to find. After that we went to YouTube and searched up the clean version of Hollaback girl by Gwen Stefani. Then we screen recorded and saved the audio from the video so that we could input it into the background of our video.  We added in all of our clips and watch them all the way through to see how they looked together.  One of the most important parts of us editing was making sure the audio and lyrics from the song was aligned with our actors lip-syncing.  So we cut , shortened,or stretched  all of our clips to make sure it matched up perfectly.  We also added a slap sound effect in the video. Along with that it was important that we kept track of the time of our footage and edited them to make sure it fit our limit and overall aligned.  Another aspect that we had to take into consideration is our transitions.  Now, overall I don’t believe that our clips look too choppy with how they are put together. We were at our time limit and we did not want to go over it so we decided to leave it how it was without any special transitions. A reason that special transitions didn’t seem that necessary for our video was because special or crazy transitions were not part of the conventions of the original artists music videos.
   before the editing process began, I thought that this process was going to be more of a hassle and that it would take a long time for my group and I to finish, but it did not take us that long to edit at all. I think the fact that we used iMovie was a big part of this. I was very comfortable with using it because of all of my group members past experience along with my own which helped my group and I to bring our editing ideas to life. I had a good editing this project. I find editing very fun and a great way to make our footage really something special.  There wasn’t anything that really went wrong during editing which was good.  I’m excited to edit in the future and learn different techniques two edits above and beyond an average video. My whole group worked very well together not only in the editing stage but in planning and filming as well. There wasn’t much editing that need to be done in all honesty. However with what we ended with I feel definitely gets the job done. I really enjoyed this project because I truly felt that i was able to express my creativity. I can't wait to begin new projects in the future and to learn new things.

Filming for Music Video again

Hello, my group and I finally finished the filming for our music video. Everyone in my group did a little bit of everything while filming. Everybody was shown in the music video as an actor, everybody helped to hold the camera to film, and everybody got the chance to direct a couple of scenes. The locations that we filmed still had to film in that we weren’t able film in since our last blog were the grocery store and the park. We also had to film a couple more scenes at the school that we forgot to film when we were first filming. Filming at the school is the easiest place to film at because my group and I don’t really have to alter our schedules to meet up, all we had to do was just stay after school for a half hour. The filming that we got done at the school was the intro to the music video and a couple of dancing scenes. We used a variety of camera shots, angles, and movements throughout the entire video. For the scenes filmed at the school we used a lot of movements including pans and tracking shots. We wanted a lot of movement in our video because the song is very fast and upbeat, and we wanted to look like we were all alive and feeling the music. 

  To film at the other locations, my group and I had to plan out the days that we could meet up to film. This was difficult because some of us had to go to work or had no way of getting to the locations that we needed to film at. Luckily for us, we all had a couple of days off from school that allowed us to get together and film. To be honest, I didn’t really enjoy filming at the grocery store location because it felt a little awkward. The store was a little crowded and it was difficult to film without customers getting in the way. To film at the grocery we had to ask permission from the store manager in order to film there. We did get permission and we tried out a couple of different ideas in the grocery store because we thought that those ideas would look cool and different on camera. Some of those ideas did look good and some of them just looked good in our heads. In the grocery store, we mainly used medium close-up shots, wide shots, and tracking shots. 

  The last location that we filmed in was the park. This location was a lot less awkward to film at compared to the grocery because the park was not as crowded. Since the park was a public space, we did not need to ask permission to film there. This location was my favorite to film at because the lighting was very good, and I think all of the footage that was shot in this location was well done and looked professional. I also really enjoyed filming at this location because I didn’t feel rushed. At the school, I felt rushed to finish filming because the school sports athletes needed the track and field to practice. At the grocery store, I felt rushed because there were a lot of customers in the store and I wanted to get out of their way. At the park, I didn’t feel rushed at all because it wasn’t crowded, and I wasn’t in the way of anyone. The used wide shots, close ups, pans, and tracking shots in this location. I don’t know if we will use all of the shots that we took in our final project though,