Editing Blog

     Today we starting editing our music video. We use the song Love Don’t Change by Jeremiah. It’s an RnB love song, and we wanted our video to portray a message of love.  When i walked in class my team mates had already grabbed a computer for us to use. They where logging into there ID so we could go onto pinnacle studios. I already knew this editing process was going to take long. I remember how during our previous project it would freeze up. So while the computer loaded pinnacle studios, my teammates and I talked about what shots we thought we should use. This was a very mind opening conversation since, I didn’t think about what elements would place well with the song. After talking for a good 5 minuets, we where all in agreement. Now we where ready to edit.

  

       After patiently waiting on pinnacle studios to load it popped up. So I took the flash drive and put it in the computer. This was where all our footage was. I got on the computer and deleted the sample footage. One of my teammates clicked the import button and we saw another tab pop up. We clicked the folder with our flash drive name on it. I then imported the stuff from the flash drive onto pinnacle studios. It took a great deal of time for the files to finish copying.  When the files finished copying the video was ready to be edited. Now it was time to decide what footage we wanted to keep.

      I dragged the scenes slowly to the editing strip. Then we trimmed a few seconds off each scene. Suddenly I hear that class is almost over. My brain stopped for a second. We had just started editing and class was almost over. So my group mates decided to edit on Imovie. We had to edit when we got home that night. So When I got home that night I called my group mates. We talked as one of our group mates edited the scenes on her phone. It seemed easier this way, rather then using pinnacle studios. After we finished editing, my group mate sent the video to all of us, so we could look over it. 

Filming Blog

        After a few long days of crucial planning I started filming for my music video. The process of filming this time around was not as exciting. There where a few bumps in the road, which we overcame. Filming took us a good three days to do and I feel it went successfully even with all the down sides. From my group mates and their variety of opinions to choosing the exact spots we wanted our shots on the beach. Of course all these decisions where very time consuming, so we had to keep it moving. Overall I can say filming wasn’t all that bad. I got to shoot in an area that wasn’t school. This was a very insightful and informative moment for me. Anyways let’s getting into our filming process


       So first we went to the mattress store. We walked around to canvas the area. After a few minutes we found a couple spots we thought would be nice to use. So one of my group mates asked a employee for the manager. When the manager was found, we asked permission to film in the store. All I could think in that moment was the worst. “ What if the manager says no” , “ This is going to be a disaster”. Truthfully my stomach was in knots while waiting on the mangers response. Once we got the okay to film we set up the camera in one of the bed room settings. We used the tripod to get a better angle of our two actresses on the bed with little camera movement. This method was a success, our take in the bedroom setting was a great success.

       After our first take in the bedroom setting we found a kitchen setting to film in. This was going to be the part in the video where the male RnB singer was cooking his love breakfast. This shot took a couple tries. I would suggest a shot to get of the make RnB singers face, and my group mate would say another. Eventually we found a shot we all agreed on. More on, to me when we shot at the beach was the real fun. We shot at fort lauderdale beach, it was so beautiful. We shot our male RnB singer walked down the beach reminiscing about the good times with his love. We tried to get the sun going down in our video, but unfortunately that didn’t work. All in all, our filming process had a great turn out. I can’t wait to edit now.