Editing Blog

I started the editing process yesterday in class. We couldn't use the desktops so i used a school laptop. We took the videos off the person phone who we recorded the videos on and saved them to a laptop and then put them on the thumb drive. Since all the videos were recorded on one of our phones we had to turn everything into mp4's. That process took a whole class period. We had to use a website to turn them into the mp4's and do it one by one. It took longer than expected since we kept forgetting which ones we just did. We were going to just do the videos we wanted to use in our music video but we decided to turn all of them into mp4's. We also were just going to do the longer videos but then we realized we will be using some of the 2-3 second videos. It was a total of 41 videos.
When we were about to start editing we got on the laptops and pulled up pinnacle studios. My group and I waited but after a while we realized that it won't be coming up no time soon. We then wasn't able to edit that class and it pushed us back because we had a plan of doing the editing early and just getting it done. My group member and I then stayed a extra 90 minutes to try and get pinnacle studios to open by using different laptops. After the 3rd try we got pinnacle studios to finally open and we begin editing.We started putting the music videos together the next class. We downloaded the song "no fear" onto the computer. We then turned it into an mp3 and inserted the music into the video. We then went through and selected what videos we wanted to use. We first inserted a picture of the title of the song "No Fear" that we wrote in the sand.
Next we inserted the videos. We had to crop a lot and add videos in between longer videos. This process was quite stressful due to the fact we kept having technical difficulties. The music would stop playing through out the video at times. The videos would start glitching as if they didn't load all the way. It was becoming a stressful process once again. Then we realized don't stress we can use one of my group members laptops to edit through iMovie. My group member then started the whole process over through iMovie and went through the same steps as pinnacle studios with inserting music first then videos. Everything was aligned together the video was nice. Lastly the transitions were added and our music video was done and sent to our teacher.

Final Filming Process

With previously having problems i was kind of worried how things were going to turn out on Tuesday. Before we went to record we were having problems but things got back on track and everyone met up together. After school we went to the beach which was our main location we decided to film at. At the beach there was two actors which was ambi and i. There was two camera men which was Brandon and Naiya. Through out the process we decided to stick to the story board for the most part. We did many shots so we wouldn’t have to go out and film again. We also filmed a lot so we wouldn’t be displeased with what we have to edit with when we got back in class. We shot from many different angles to get different views. We incorporated low angles, high angles, and eye level.

We wanted to get creative so the video wouldn’t be boring. We ended up going by the story board for the first part then just doing our own thing after a while. We did scenes where we were running, holding hands, walking, and just having fun. We did many point of view shots of one another. For having fun we danced around. We also played a childish game of peek a boo. We decided to take two shots of us singing so the music can match the video at certain parts. We started recording when the sun was setting so we had a nice light pink background as the sky. Since the sky was so beautiful we incorporated a scene where we put our hands together and formed a heart with the sky as the background. The heart represented the loving part of the song. 

In my mind i believed and had high hope that this video could come out great. With all the shots and everything we filmed i feel like my dream came true. Everyone got along and we succeeded on getting the filming part done. It was a nice vibe through out this process. There was finally peace with everyone just like how it should be especially with the song we picked. Throughout the filming process we had the song playing in background of the video so we could stay on track with the message of the whole video. The message included having fun and loving someone. We incorporated the message throughout the video as much as we could by being happy.We also incorporated it around each other. It was all laughs and fun which made the atmosphere even better.