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.