Editing blog

Hello! My group and I are so excited  that we got to work on this music video project. After filming and editing it I don’t think we could’ve been more proud of how it turned out. In the first filming project we did we used our school’s camera and editing program, Pinnacle studios but this time we decided to try out something different.  We all agreed that it would be more convenient to shoot all of our footage on our phones.  Additionally, we decided to use iMovie on our phone to put together all of our footage and edit.  We all have much experience using this tool and thought it would be to our advantage to use this instead.  Which in the end we feel was a very smart decision.  Not only did we save time by not having to dump or risk losing footage we also were able to edit at any time not only when in class.  So after we filmed everything we needed we began to edit.
  To begin our editing process  I started by opening up the app iMovie and clicking on the import application.  My group and I collectively watched through all of our footage and favorited the ones we wanted to use and put it into a separate folder so that they would be easier to find. After that we went to YouTube and searched up the clean version of Hollaback girl by Gwen Stefani. Then I screen recorded and saved the audio so that we could input it into the background of our video.  I added in all of our clips and watch them all the way through to see how they looked together.  One of the most important parts of us editing was making sure the audio and lyrics from the song was aligned with our actors lip-synching.  So we cut , shortened,or stretched  all of our clips to make sure it matched up perfectly.  Along with that it was important that we kept track of the time of our footage and edited them to make sure it fit our limit and overall aligned.  Another aspect that we had to take into consideration what is our transitions.  Now, overall I don’t believe that our clips look choppy with how they are put together and we did not want to go over our time limit so we decided to leave it how it was without any special transitions.
   Prior to begin editing I thought that this process was going to be more of a hassle and at times stressful than it was, which I was very pleasantly surprised by . I think the fact that we used iMovie was a big part of this. I was comfortable with using it because of all of my past experience which helps for my group and I to bring our editing ideas to life.  I did have a good time editing this project I find editing very fun and a great way to make our footage really something special.  There wasn’t anything that really went wrong during editing which was good.  I’m excited to edit in the future and learn different techniques two edits above and beyond an average video. My whole group worked very well together not only in the editing stage but in planning and filming as well. There wasn’t much editing that need to be done in all honesty. However with what we ended with I feel definitely gets the job done. I cant wait to edit more and get better and better.

Final filming blog

          Hey everyone today I will be talking about how our filming went and what we had to do to finish it up. My group and I started filming last week and it was so much fun. We enjoyed having the opportunity to make a fun a creative music video. We got a lot of the filming done.  Last week we stayed after school to film the parts in our music video that were supposed to be at school. It was really fun filming at school, it was a little embarrassing at times but overall it was a lot of fun.  It took us two days to get all the school footage for the music video. During the thanksgiving break we decided to go and film at the park. Filming in the park was so fun, it was a beautiful day and we got some good shots. I really liked that we filmed in the park, especially for a music video. There were many filming opportunities in the park which was great! There was also many people there and that was kind of frustrating because they kept getting into the shot. There was also many background sounds of kids yelling, but it’s ok because we are going to insert the music. I’m just happy that it was a nice day out, I’m glad that it wasn’t raining or cloudy. So overall it was a great day to film at the park.
         We had three places that we needed to film to finish the whole video. The first place was the school and to film everything we need. That took a couple of days for the school part. The second place was the park it took us one day to film but it took so long. The park was so much fun because we got to hang out after. The final place that we filmed at was the grocery store, we filmed the most at the grocery store. We filmed the parts where alex and I had a conflict and how we connected after dancing. We danced a lot in this store this was really difficult because there were so many people in the store. We had to reshoot a lot because we messed up or someone walked in our shot. We were all a little nervous because we were scared that we would get kicked out of the store. It was really funny because there were so many people  staring at us and people coming up to us asking what we were doing. We tried to not get in the way of anyone but it was hard because there was so many people. I really liked the places that we went to for our music video. I’m really happy that we went to the grocery store because I got some food after we were done. So overall this was amazing and fun and I’m so happy we did this.