Editing Blog Music Video

                                                         Editing Blog Music Video                                           

     Now comes the Editing Stage. The previous blog was about the Filming and now me and my group have moved onto editing our music video. From the Filming stage, we decided to film our shots on the camera. However the camera was not charged when I arrived at Young Circle. So I took it up on myself to record on my Samsung Note 9. However, I was going to leave early, so Elijah decided to record it on his phone. Elijah's phone is an Iphone 7 Plus. When I left, they said they completed all the filming. I told them to dump the footage onto the computer when the next class came around. They decided to upload it onto Google Drive.
 
     However, when it comes to actually editing, the footage has to be uploaded to Pinnacle Studios. So when we tried to upload it to Pinnacle Studios, the footage was not accepted. The video file was .mov, which was not supported by Pinnacle Studios. Iphone footage typically gets exported as the .mov file. So then we tried to convert the footage into a compatible file type, .mp4. Since it requires special administrative access to download apps, we had to do the converting online. This is where the majority of the problems came up, such as slow speeds and storage limits. We tried multiple websites, but all were slow and only got a few of the clips converted. Then another problem arose when coming across half decent websites. The laptops were not efficient enough to actually do these conversions at fast enough speeds, so we had to leave at the end of class.
   
     Before the end of class today, we had already tried 5 laptops and none of them were of any good use to us. I talked to my teacher, and she announced that students may go to her during study hall the following day. My group took that chance and agreed to go. However, it is my duty to convert the .mov files to .mp4 ones. So when I went home today, I started the conversions on my gaming pc. My pc is well over fast enough to do the conversions fast. Just in case there were no other computers or laptops available to use the next day, I said I would bring my own. However, that means I need an editing software to edit on. I tried out Blender and HitFilm Express, but they were too complicated. I settled on the easy-to-use Windows Movie Maker. Finally in conclusion, tomorrow will be the day we get all the true editing done, and today we prepared for it.

Filming Blog

                   Filming Blog               

     My music video project I am doing for my Media class requires me to film the video itself. The music song choice is "Hey THERE Deliljah". The filming took place on November 23rd. The location was at Young Circle in Hollywood, Florida. The setting for the video was at night so I had to go when it was dark outside. I was leaving from a friends house before I reached the park. My mom had a friend in the car, so they had to leave soon. My mom and friend also came from a party at another one of my friends house. They came to pick me up, but I also had to go film. My mom gave me around 10-15 minutes to go film with my group.

     Misunderstood, she was under the influence that if the video is short the filming will be short. After 3 minutes in, we weren't even filming yet. Elijah and Zeke had other friends there at the park. This slowed down the process to actually start filming since they weren't going to be a part of the vid. The original choice for the female lead into the music was changed into another friend also at the park. I wanted to get as much effort put into the 10 minutes I had, so I tried rushing things a bit. I decided to be the cameraman and got the scenes into position. The first scene was with the man with the guitar isolated. This was completed at the side of a fountain. The next scene was comprised of the setting shot, which would set the setting of the park at night.

     However, it also captured an already placed Christmas tree, which was not planned to be in the video. However this tree sets the mood a bit better with the Holiday and Romantic theme. The third scene was with the man perched on top of a tree strumming his guitar and singing while the girl strolls past unnoticing of the man. The tree blocked most light so it was incredibly dark on camera so flash was needed to film. The camera captured mostly the bottom half of Zeke (the guitar player). Another problem was with the other friends, who kept getting caught in the shot, so they had to move to a completely different position. This was the final scene I could stay and help with since my mom was asking for me to come. Apparently the rest of the filming went by smoothly so I was not worried about the footage. When we went back to school last Tuesday, I asked Elijah and Zeke to dump the footage onto the laptop, but they dumped it on onedrive. The filming stage was finally completed and now my group is ready to move onto the editing stage.