Editing music video

After filming our music video project, my group and I began to work on the editing process. For our editing, we are using the platform called Imovie. This is a very easy editing app because you can get it on any apple product, and everyone on our group has iPhones. This makes it so we can edit the video off our phone. This makes the editing so much more stress free since we don’t need anything extra to do it. Since the films were also done on our phone, it makes it even easier for us. In imovie you basically just import the clips, record the sound u want to be playing and bam, it’s done. Then the video will just play through. You can add however many filter you feel necessary to the footage. There are also multiple transitions you can use from one video to the next. Overall, Imovie is very practical for our group. Using it was simple and created a nice video so far.

Before putting our clips into Imovie, we had to go through them to see which ones we were using and if we needed to trim them. As we were doing this, we found many clips that needed to be trimmed and many clips that weren’t good enough to use. This caused some panic in my group. However, it was resolved after we realized I could just go back to the beach and film again. After trimming all footage and picking and choosing, we put them into iMovie. The videos looked surprisingly professional, and it wasn’t half bad. This was before we even added the music. Me and one of my group même vers, Adriana, took a step outside to record the music for iMovie. I had to play the song off my phone and then put it against her phone while she was recording sound on iMovie. We eventually found the best way to do this and were successful. After putting the music in, the music video was really starting to come together, both of our actors were happy with it as well.

As said earlier, after trimming a sifting through footage, we found we didn’t have enough to make the whole 60 seconds. This meant that I had to go back and reshoot some shots as well as make new ones. This put some pressure on me, since my whole group was relying on me to film. I was okay will the pressure because I knew I would get it done. One of the actors in the video is my sister, the other is our close friend Sam. This made it easier to film a second day. The only annoying thing was that everyone had to be wearing the sam clothes and it had to be at least similar conditions at the beach. This meant that we would have to return to the beach at the same time, with the sam clothes, same camera, same glasses, same everything. This posed quite a struggle for filming when I wanted to, but all filming will be done by Friday. So far, our video is pretty good and is coming together well.

Filming at the beach

Sunday was the day that I filmed. The actor/actress we used were named kelly and sam. Kelly is my sister and Sam is a close friend. We hang out all of the time, so I figured for my group it would be easier to just shoot them in the scene rather than a friend who might not be able to meet up. The filming ended up being a LOT of fun. My sister and Sam basically had to play a romance on the beach. This was very laughable since they are not actually together in real life. For the music video however, they played their parts very well. We ended up filming at the beach and doing a cliche, Sam meets kelly and then talks her up and they end up getting together. The filming was done by me, and I had to improvise for some shots for certain camera angles.

When we got to the beach, we took out the necessary props, aka the beach towel that is carried by kelly in the first clip. The story follows the lines of Sam seeing Kelly at the beach and begin talking to each other and then hanging out and becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. It is a regular cliche, but I like to think of this one as better than most. The first clip of kelly carrying the blanket had to be a track shot. This was very difficult because we were on the beach and I dont have a track and I couldn't push a skateboard with me on it. I ended up just steadily walking behind her and it is an actually pretty stable clip. That was only one difficulty we had. When I began to take the pier shots, I had to get different high and low angles. Because of the pier being there I couldn't get the highest angle from under the pier. However I found a way to hop up onto the concrete platform and shoot from up there. We came up with various solutions to various problems and it ended up working out just fine. 

The filming that we completed if added together creates more than 60 seconds. However after editing the video, we are definitely going to trim some of the footage because of bloopers at the ends of beginning of the video. I hope we will still be able to make the full 60 seconds time. If need be, I might film during the week a little more just to give extra footage for just in case. You can never be too safe, and I want this project to be well put together. I really hope by the romance we didn’t violate any rules that we don’t know about, such as wearing bathing suits? Sam and Kelly and their slight PDA? Hopefully everything will be fine and we won’t have to delete some of our video. That would not be pleasant. However, I believe everything will run smoothly and we will be able to make the best possible video we could have. It already has great quality footage, now we just need to add the music and BOOM, it almost done.