Editing the Music Video

     A couple days ago we edited the music video. If I’m going to be honest, Rafael did mostly all of it. He does have the most knowledge about editing then me or Angelo. I’m not sure how he knows what he does. In this blog I will be talking about how our music video was edited.
     First came putting all the scenes together. This wasn’t too difficult. Since most of our shots didn’t have too much excess footage it wasn’t too long. We obviously had to sort the scenes in chronological order. This was based mostly on the storyboard. Since we diverted from the origin plan it doesn’t link up completely. We also didn’t film everything from first scene to last scene. In fact, the first scene we filmed was the last scene. After we joined the clips together, in the correct order, we edited extra parts out. These include me saying start or go and any extra time the actor took after I pressed record. When filming we made a lot of background noise. In the clips you can hear talking and laughing. There were also a lot of directions in the audio, this helped a lot during the filming process. Ultimately, from the beginning we know we were going to edit these sounds out. This was quite easy all you had to do was mute the audio on all of them. Next came putting the song over the scenes. Each clip had its own part of the song it was supposed to go with. The song was layered over the original muted audio. From here we cut down the scenes so that they would correspond with the lyrics. This proved a bit more time consuming than expected. It’s a good thing while filming we made the shots while playing the music. This really helped to ensure a clip was not too short. This would have really messed things up for all the scenes. After this came the transitions. We decided on them being short and somewhat abrupt because the song is like that, it shifts from one second to the other. For others, we did fades. I wanted to add filters over the video to differentiate each scene even more. However, I brought this up rather late and my teammates felt it was unnecessary. Overall, I feel our music video is pretty mediocre. The whole process itself is a lot harder than I thought. The part I feel is the hardest is filming and the shots coming out not looking like a bunch of kids who’re just trying something out. I wanted it to look and give a more professional feel. For my next filming project I will try hard to make it better.

Filming the Music Video again

     During the second day of filming the whole music video was reshot. Me and my group right after school got to Mariapaula’s house and waited for the sun to set. Before it set, we determined who’s phone we will be filming with. I then took their phone and recorded the sun but used a brightness bar to start it at the darkest possible shade and lightening it up. This was for the part of our song that goes “brighter than the sun.” While the sun was setting, me and my group popped a confetti popper and collected the confetti. We then placed it around the bathro ou om. Mariapaula did us the favor of pretending to be passed out on the floor. I tried being the cameraman but I didn’t like the way the shots were coming out. Because of this I asked Rafael to step in and record. We then began filming the actor (Angelo) walking in the house. However, before this we spread more confetti around the floor. We played the song during the shots to make sure the length of the walk to the door was long or short enough. It proved more difficult than originally thought. The timing had to be precise for it to go along with the music. I then filmed Angelo walking into the house, when he hesitates to open the door. I captured it from a low angle and had to take many shots. It’s rather amusing because the first take done was really good but I hadn’t pressed record. After this Angelo didn’t do as well. We finally got a good enough shot. I sweepers hope all the confetti on the floor and moved onto the next scene. This would be the scene where angelo is in the house and looks over at the lover also played by Mariapaula. There was a short debate on who should play the lover but I honestly feel very uncomfortable on camera so I decided to ask Mariapaula. We has to discuss and change the lighting a lot on the house. We went from turning off and on one to the other to a different color LED light around the kitchen counter. I then filmed them walking to each other from multiple distances and angles. I was trying very hard to get a good shot. Best came all the arguing scenes. This was pretty annoying. Mariapaula kept laughing in them and a lot of them looked fake. Honestly, I just settled at the end and gave up on those scenes to be perfect, we were on a clock and had to finish soon. They didn’t come out too bad but the scene where the lover is falling looks pretty out of place. Lastly we filmed the fire and confetti scenes. Mariapaula’s dad lit the fire and I recorded many shot of it. These shots include tilts, aerial views, and high and low angles. The absolute last scene we took was the confetti scene. Overall, I like the idea of this shot a lot, I liked the setting, the confetti falling, and affect it gave. However, I think that affect was washed out by the bad quality the camera gave. Lighting was a big problem by the fence we decided to do it by because, well, there was none. We had to use camera lights to try and brighten it up. This didn’t work and the colors didn’t come out vivid, like I wanted. We also couldn’t redo the scene because we didn’t have another confetti popper. Finding a way to fix this scene up isn’t going to be easy. I had a lot of fun filming this music video mostly because a lot of the stress from the previous filming day was gone. We did get pretty distracted and ran somewhat short on time. This is something that I need to work on for next time.