Editing Blog

My partner Kaitlyn and I spent the last two classes editing our music video. We selected our shots first. We decided to use our storyboard to help us remember the correct order. This process took about 30 minutes. Then, we had to adjust each clip. Since both of us were in the video, one person had to press record and the go to their spot. Therefore, we had to cut out a lot of the beginning of most clips. We also had to trim the ends for the same reason. Once all of the videos were cut to the appropriate length, the video was too long. Instead of the video being 1 minute and 15 seconds, the video was about 1 minute and 20 seconds long.

In addition to this problem, the first clip was also sideways. This was the clip with the pan that I filmed on my phone. We spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to flip it. Unfortunately, there was no button that said "rotation" and it was extremely difficult to find. We had to select the clip, and open the effects editor. Then we had to select effects and press 2D. Once we pressed that, a sidebar appeared that said "rotation". I typed in 270 degrees to flip it so it would match the other videos. We then pressed save changes, and watched the video. About 15 seconds later, our computer died.

For the phone call scenes, we had to change the color. The scenes are supposed to be flashbacks, so we made it black and white. We then made some of the clips even shorter. We had to do this because our video was about 5 seconds too long. Once this was completed, we detached the original audio. We were afraid that the original audio would play with the music. Luckily, it didn't take long to detach. Once this process was completed, we inserted the audio. The audio was also too long, so we had to fit it to scale. We finished the editing process, and will look over our work next class.

Filming Blog: Reshooting

My partner Kaitlyn and I finished filming the first day we filmed. However, when we were rereading the rubric in class, we noticed that we didn't include a pan. We decided to redo the first clip of me putting on lipstick. We thought of this because our music video ends with a tilt. We also did not want to check out a camera for one clip because the filming process would only take about 3-10 minutes. This would have been unfair to all the other groups that still needed to film. Therefore, I used my phone camera. Kaitlyn did not come over because it was only one shot. Because of this, I had to film myself. I only did the scene 2 or 3 times until I decided that it looked good.

Overall, it was pretty challenging. I couldn't zoom in on my front camera, so I had to flip my phone the other way. Luckily, I was standing in front of a mirror. Therefore, I could look at the reflection of the phone. I pointed the phone to the left of me. Then when it began to film, I slowly moved it to the right. I stopped when the camera got to me. Then I did the scene according to plan, and stopped recording. I left a few seconds at the end of the scene when I stopped recording, but I can cut that part out. I did a few takes, and Kaitlyn and I will decide on a shot during the editing process.

Other than that, I didn't film. However, we did discuss some editing things. We talked about what type of transitions we would use. We decided not to do the phone scene before the music. This scene would've been one of the characters texting the other person,"I can't wait to see you." Or something along those lines. Kaitlyn and I are proud that we finished filming, but we enjoyed the process. During the filming process, we were very focused and therefore finished filming in a timely manner. We also started editing since we finished filming. That way we can take more time to work on the details and try different things.