Editing blog

     Today the editing of our music video was finally started..... oh brother! We chose to do the song “Love Don’t Change by Jeremiah.” It’s an old RnB love song, everybody loved it back in the day so we thought it’d be perfect. One of team mates had grabbed a laptop for us to use. I knew the editing process was going to be interesting to say the least. Instead of using my account this time, we ended up using another reliable source. Pinnacle studios always gave us difficulties in the past so I was a bit skeptical. My group members  and I ended up talking about what shots we thought we should use. I love conversations like this because you get to see everyone’s creative side. After talking for a good 5 minutes, we where ready to edit.

 I didn’t know if I wanted to be happy or sad about this. After patiently waiting on pinnacle studios to pop up, which took forever by the way, we finally got started one one of the main processes. My team member entered the flash drive into the computer. All our footage begun to upload to the computer. One of my group members deleted the sample footage. I then of  clicked the import button, and then we watched the files upload. I then clicked the folder with our flash drive name on it. We had to wait patiently till all our files were uploaded.  This process took a huge amount of time but I think we were prepared for it. After all that time, the video was now ready to edit.

We had to figure which footage we were going to use and which we were going to ignore.
 We then had to drag the scenes slowly to the editing strip on the bottom of the computer. We had to cut the scenes so they made sense. By this time the class was almost over. I guess time does fly when you’re having fun. I would’ve been scared but we already went through this so we knew we had to have a backup plan. My group mates and I group thought it’d be best  to edit on iMovie.. Later on in the day, we conducted a group call.. We discussed how we wanted the scenes to look, as one of our group mates edited the scenes on her phone. After we finished editing, my group mate sent the video to all of us, so we could look over it. I thought this editing process would be dreadful but to be honest I was slightly wrong.

Filming blog

In this blog we will be discussing the filming process of the music video. For some reason that always seems to be a complicated stage for me and my group. We struggled with finding the right schedule and the best time to go to the beach setting and shoot. It had to be perfect, we really did want it to be perfect at least. We had to film just as the sun was about to set which is a short time phrase so it was difficult. At first we really struggled with finding when we were all going to meet up.  One group member has a job, one has practice, another was leaving town during the break, and as for me I didn’t have a ride. I know what you’re thinking “why can’t you just catch the bus, or a Uber,” but my parental figure doesn’t work that way. When the class first started we were warned that if your parents won’t allow you to go out then this class wouldn’t be the best for you. Well that’s honestly my case but I’m a smart cookie and I truly believe that I can honestly figure it out. 

 I want this AICE credit so badly, especially since it has to do with movies. Anyways back to filming we finally finalized a date that would be ok for everyone. We all had to face the facts that we were going to have to find a way regardless of the circumstances. So we found a way to do it, one of our group members has a car so we’d leave right after school and head to the furniture  store. You’re probably wondering why we need a furniture store, but our video concept is based on flashbacks. So we thought it’d be best to show what a couple would consider “happy moments,” this involved someone serving breakfast in bed. This was a key detail in our song so we had to inscription it someway somehow. Before we do anything we learned that it’s best to ask permission when shooting in a store. So we’d call management before hand and speak to them as soon as we get there. This way we’re not violating any rules the store may have, plus it’s better to be safe than sorry.

After that setting we head to the beach. This is our last scenery that we chose to use. It’s also the main  scenery because it’ll be used as a way to show how devastated our male actor is at his newly ended relationship. Without this part of the music video, the flashbacks just wouldn’t make sense. In order to execute this we had to arrive before the sunset. We also had a time limit because I have to be back at school at a certain time. So we have to make every take worth it and we had to realize that it’s strictly business. We have to make the video as realistic and relatable as possible so we thought him walking on the beach with the sand in between his toes would make the scene perfect. He’ll be walking alongside the beach, and using the sunset as a way to reminisce on what was once real. I’m between him walking on the beach we’ll add the scenes from the furniture.