Music Video Editing Blog

We had two in class days to work on editing our video. The first day we couldn’t work on it because we forgot the cord. We recorded with our phones instead of the camera for a couple of reasons. First, one of my teammates had to leave on vacation and had the camera with him. We also realized that our phones had good resolution them selves so we thought it would be easier with multiple cameras to use. We also thought it would be better to dump with them because of iCloud and a wire which we forgot at home. My teammate even tested it at home to see if it worked. As he was checking however, he left the cord in the computer. There wasn’t too much editing anyway in our video though. All we had to do was add the shots together and put music over it.

The second day of editing however went a lot better. We brought the wire and dumped our footage. When we dumped, we saw that the video was too long so we cut some stuff. We we cut each shot individually to make it a bit shorter. We also cut an entire shot out of it. It was a shot that was planning over the ocean. It didn’t really work with the video because there was no room for it. It was at the beginning but we already had a time lapse of the ocean and it made it look over used. After that it was the right time but then we realized that it was missing a scene because our teammate was going film their own clip at home. So we trimmed some other stuff leaving room for it. Finally we were done and all we need was to add the music.

Unfortunately, the class was over and we didn’t have time to finish. One of my teammates volunteered to edit over the weekend. He said he could do it all by himself but we offered to come over and help. So during the weekend we will add music over the video. We decided to put the music over the lobster when it’s first introduced. The music will be quite at first and then be the normal music when it gets closer. Then we were going to put the music lowers when the lobster in the pot. The music will be completely off when the pot closes over it. After that we won’t need to put anything else in our video. The editing will be over and we will have our final product.

Music Video Beach Filming Blog

Today was our filming day. My group and I went to the Fort Lauderdale beach. This is the most convenient beach to go to for all of our group members. However one of our group members could not make it because they were on vacation.  The weather and lighting at the beach was great. It was nice and sunny out, but we did make one mistake. We got to the beach at around 4:00 PM and started filming at around 4:20. The sun started to go down while we were still filming. Thankfully, we got all of the shots we needed at the beach before the sun started to set. There was also another small issue. The wind was very strong at the beach. The sound was not important in the film since the music would be playing over the videos, but it did effect our prop setup. For props, we brought:

• Beach umbrella 
• Beach towel
• Sunglasses
• Plush lobster
• Bottle of water

We filmed using our phone cameras. One of our group members has a 4k video recording camera, which looked very nice with the beach background. We were not able to film with the school cameras because of miscommunication with one of our group members. However, filming on the phone cameras turned out very nice. Our group was able to get enough shots to confidently hit the 1 minute and 15 second requirement. We also got many different shots of what we wanted to show. This way, we would be able to choose which shot we liked the best. These were the filming roles:

• Dylan-Filming, editing
• Owen-Filming, acting
• Jimmy-Acting
• Trent-Editing

There is only one shot we were not able to get. It is the ending shot where the lobster is put into a pot to cook. This will be done at my house. I will be able to do it alone because it really only takes one person. Next class, we will dump our footage onto the computer. We will do this by emailing the videos to ourselves. Since we filmed on our phones, the process will be much easier. Trent and I will work on the editing portion, which should be fun. I am confident that our film will turn out great.