Editing blog

     Hey I'm back! In my previous blog I talked about the filming process I went through for my music video. Now that i have all the footage edited, I can talk about the process of that. So, before class on Tuesday morning, I went to class to dump my footage onto the computer. I made a folder on the desktop and on my google drive just in case anything were to happen. The dumping process went very smoothly unlike last time because I somewhat knew what I was doing this time. We also had actual laptops that worked to do it on now. I finished dumping and then I had to go to class and I'd continue editing the following day. The following day was the day we were actually able to start editing. This process also went pretty smooth.
      When i got to class, i got the same computer I imported on to make sure all of my footage was there. Now that i scene that the footage was all there, this is when i technically started to edit. I then opened up pinnacle studios and started to import onto there. My group and I then looked through all of the footage that we shot and chose the ones that we though came out the best. Once we chose them, we dragged them into Av track 2 which is for the footage. Like I said, our music video is more like a montage. A montage is basically a series of photos or videos put together. Since we chose to do a montage, our transitions were not that choppy since we would go from one scene to another. Editing our music video was also fun because some of the scenes we shot were somewhat funny.
      After getting everything put together, I added the song to see how it all looked together. Once we heard the song with it, we decided to change a few things up. I didn't like how some of the scenes looked because it just didn't match up. We finally got something we were all happy with. We all watched it over a few times to make sure we liked it and weren't missing anything. We agreed to the final product and then sent it in! We were all pretty proud of ourselves because not only did we finish filming in a reasonable amount of time, editing was a breeze too. I think this was another good learning experience. I'm glad we are finished with our music video. See you guys in the next blog!!

Filming blog

  We finally got to film during the break ! After work on Wednesday, I went to Lauderdale By the Sea beach. When i got to the beach, one of my partners was there but we had to wait for my other partner to get there. Once he got there we started to film. Everyone brought their friends to film so we had more people for the music video. I filmed the whole thing while the other people in my group acted. Not only did we get the filming part done, but we had fun while doing it. We got the filming done in a few hours before it got dark out. It was also nice out, it wasn't to hot but it wasn't very cold. Nothing bad got in the way of our filming process.

    First, when we started to film we started at the bathrooms. We started at the bathrooms so we could use the pink door so we could open it to the beach. I made it look like we opened a door and then straight after that it was everyone walking. After we left the bathroom, I filmed everyone walking towards the beach. Everyone was talking and laughing to make it look like they were having a good time. Once we got to the beach, I filmed everyone just running towards the water. Then I filmed everyone walking down the beach. I tried to get everyone to go into the water but it was too cold. What I filmed looked mostly like a montage of everyone having fun and running around. I filmed like a montage because the song is about a teenagers dream so I made it look like what a teenage does while they are out with their friends.

   When we finished filming what we needed to at the beach, we walked up to all the stores. I chose to film at Lauderdale By the Sea because not only is there the beach, but there's more places to go to get food and other stuff. I filmed everyone laughing and walking up to get ice cream. We went to Sloan's because the scenery is really pretty and it has good ice cream. At this point, i just filmed everyone getting their ice cream and sitting down and enjoying it. After we got ice cream, we went to Diamonds and Doggies. I filmed my partner interacting with the puppies. This music video is basically just everyday life. After this I filmed everyone saying their goodbyes and leaving. Next blog is about editing, so I'll see you there !!