Time to edit!

The time has come to finally edit the footage we filmed.

This is the part of film production that I personally look forward

to the most. It’s the part where the magic happens. You finally

see the vision you had in your mind come to life. Editing can be

an exciting and stressful process. Well the exciting part comes more

towards the end when everything is coming together as a whole.

Whereas the stressful part is a feeling one has throughout the whole

editing process. The stressful part isn’t really working with the software,

it’s more the deadline for the project that is stressful. We have to edit

our whole music video in the span of two and a half days because we

were only able to film a little while ago due to my group and I’s conflicting

schedule. I completely understand that in reality, the film industry has

strict deadlines that need to be met so this gives us a genuine experience

in the film industry. 

In the hour and thirty minutes that were given in class today, we were

able to edit thirty seconds of our music video. Given that our music video

is only a minute and fifteen seconds long, getting half of it done in class

is pretty impressive in my book. We want to make the footage and the song

to flow together as much as possible. This means where the song has a

certain beat drop or sound effect, we want the footage line up perfectly in

order to create a ‘satisfying’ feeling to the music video. We’ve been able

to achieve this with a good majority of the music video. So far the music video

is in it’s sequence that it needs to be according to our storyboard. However

we still need to put the other takes in order to correspond with our storyboard.

Other than that we need to add transitions that are necessary for the clean

\flow of the music video. Some shots just need some help to look better, and

a transition can do that. It’s important that we choose specific transitions that

will work because if not it can make the music video look bad. 

We plan on turning in the music video on its due date which is next week from

the date of this blog post. Hopefully we were able to finish it in a timely manner

where we had enough time to get everything we wanted to in the music video.

So far the music video looks good. We have high expectations for it like we did

for our commercial. I think we have what it takes to impress with our music video.

Like I said in previous blog posts, the song is an iconic one that everyone knows.

This means that not only are our expectations high, but everyone who loves the

song we chose. Even though we have to follow a rubric (which of course we are following)

we would want to take it to the next level. With the time crunch that we’re on,

that might not happen. All I can do is hope and have wishful thinking that we

are going to make it how we want it and how we envision it.

Continuing to film

We finally filmed! This past Wednesday, November 27th,

three out of four members of our group met up and recorded some scenes.

Unfortunately it came to an abrupt stop when one of our group members

who had checked the camera out from our classroom neglected to check if

the camera was charged or not. So when we tried to officially record our music video,

the camera would not turn on. However, I was able to deduce that the camera can be

on when you kept it plugged into the wall. We were able to film certain scenes that

did not require the camera to be moved or at a position that was distant from the outlet

in the wall. We filmed about two different scenes but many takes of each scene. We

honestly did great with what we had. 

Like I said before we filmed a total of two scenes. One scene during the music

video where the stalker realizes that her 'stalkee' is playing ping pong with his friend.

The camera does a close up and then it cuts to a POV where the viewer sees the phone

as if they were the stalker. Then it shows the stalker grabbing her belongings and running

to go to where he is. We filmed this multiple times in order to get enough chances to

capture what we envisioned. The second scene we filmed is when the 'stalkee' is with

his friend playing video games. Like the first scene we filmed we took like three or four

takes of the scene. We then filmed the 'stalkee' receiving a phone call from his stalker.

During this scene, the stalker is continuing to play video games and suddenly gets a

phone call and shows his friend. It then cuts to a close up of the phone where it shows

“unknown” to solidify that it was the stalker calling him. 

We plan to film the rest of the music video this Thursday, December 5th. We have a

minute and some seconds left out of the music video to film. After school on Thursday

we plan on going to the mall to film those scenes and then to our group member’s house

to finish the scenes we need to finish. We ended up changing a lot from what our storyboard

initially looked like. We managed to keep the concept the same but the locations are different.
Instead of a park, the location changed to a ping-pong area in our group member’s house.

We were unable to find a nearby park that fit the purpose of what we wanted. Hopefully we

finish filming the complete music video. From my experience of doing the commercial, the

editing is what matters. The filming skills can be okay but if you know how to edit then

everything can come together nicely. The sooner we do the filming, the sooner we can

edit and have our final product.