Editing Blog

Today is December the 5th. We were told to do a blog about our editing process. What went into it & if there was any complications. Also the steps we took to editing our music video. We took different steps to do our music video then the commercial we did. For example, for the commercial we used iMovie but for the music video we used Final Cut Pro. Another difference between the two is that the editing process for the commercial was a lot more difficult. We had a lot of technical difficulties because of our software not working. This time we decided to edit the music video at home to avoid any of these complications. So one group member has the Final Cut Pro application on their computer and has dumped all of the footage into that computer. We had to dump film from the drone as well as film from the GoPro. To dump from the drone you have to take the SD card out and place it in an SD card reader that’s attached to the computer. This is the same with the GoPro, just take the SD card out  and place in the reader. We went through all the footage that we took. For each scene we chose which one we linked the best due to different factors like lighting etc. Atleast one of every shot that we took worked so we just went with it. Once the footage was dumped and we knew what footage we were gonna use we had to start editing. Since we’re not there to physically edit with our group member we’re going to either do a Group FaceTime or text in the group chat that we have. Last time we texted our ideas in the group chat cause we couldn’t FaceTime. The editing we got done for that day was editing out all of the sound in the videos. This was important cause we’re going to be playing the song “young, dumb and broke” over the video. So after we muted everything through the app we added the song over it. We didn’t have any difficulties with this. All I did was looked up the song on YouTube; I typed in young, dumb and broke then found the song from the original artist. Then I copied the link that was at the top. I pasted the link into a mp3 converter that I found on google. It converted the link to a usable link so we could put it over the music video. After this we just cut out parts of the scene that we didn’t need. For example, if an actor broke character during the scene at the end then we edited that out. We have to make sure once we’re all finished with our music video to convert it into Mp4 format so I’m keeping that in mind.

Filming blog

We didn’t film until the thanksgiving break started. We waited because everyone’s schedule wasn’t matching up. Someone had practice or too much homework. We also had to make sure one of our group members was able to get the equipment we needed. So on Tuesday we started filming. We were going to go to the beach to film on Tuesday but that didn’t work out. We decided it would be smarter to go to the park which included a few scenes in the music video. I wanted to get the filming done as fast as possible. The first scene we decided to do was the scene were we were sitting on the bleachers. There was no reason in particular why we chose this scene first, we just saw the bleachers and walked toward them. For this scene me and a member pretended like we were talking to give the sense of friendship. The scene was filmed using our group members drone with a camera built into it. The next scene we did was us laying in the field. The park had a big soccer field & no one was there luckly. So another team mate and I layed down facing opposite directions in the grass just looking up. The other member took about 4 shots. From the drone moving closer to us then going far away. Then we filmed the scene where coins were hitting the ground. Originally we were going to drop a variety of coins but we decided to just stick with pennies because we thought the viewer would get more of the “broke” concept from the song with just pennies. The last scene we filmed for this day was of me and a group member sitting in the back of my car. We opened the trunk of the car and sat inside of it. We pretended to talk during the scene because we weren’t sure what else we could do. The next day we filmed was on thanksgiving morning. We went to the beach at 9 because this was the only other time we could film; everyone was busy the other days. The first scene we filmed was in a Walgreens. I stood in front of all the chips. Then when we started rolling I grabbed all of the chips that I could see to make it look like there was not a care in the world. We had a little bit of a difficult time because people kept walking through the show. It wasn’t their fault though, they didn’t know we were filming. Then we decided to knock the scene of us driving in the car and replace it with me trying on bags in the Walgreens. We did this because we were already in the Walgreens and thought it was a good and more safe idea. Before we left the store we filmed one last scene. It was the scene of the sunglasses. I recorded a member trying on different sunglasses and looking at the camera. Then the three of us walked to the beach. Here we filmed a scene of a group member chasing me and splashing me with water. The another scene of me and another group member walking down the beach. One of the group members also took a few pan shots of the beach and sky. Before we left we filmed one last scene of one of the group members underwater swimming. We switched out some of the scenes because we thought they would be more convenient to do other ones. For example, we took out the volleyball scene and replaced it with another scene we took at the beach. We did this because the beach that we went to did not have a volleyball net.