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.