Editing Blog

   Today, we edited in class. At first, Jahnell did not have the SD card reader so she had to go get it from  my teacher. After that, we uploaded the videos onto the computer. We additionally put each video onto our google drive just to be on the safe side. We started editing by cutting out unnecessary parts and minimizing our time. The video can be no longer than 1 minute and 15 seconds. The minimum is 1 minute and 5 seconds. We have the mindset of “too much than too little”. That way when we sit down and put the WHOLE music video together, we aren’t panicking and trying to record things in a last minute hurry. We’d rather have more things and just cut parts out.
   I must  admit that we did not get to finish editing. We will finish the rest this weekend.  Also, we will wrap up our music video filming. So far, we got to cut and delete the parts that weren’t needed in our music video. Unfortunately, that’s all we were able to do. My team mates and I will insert music over the whole music video. Everything else we have to do is minor. We will officially wrap it up Saturday evening at Micahia’s house. We’ll film indoors this time. This will be done to give the background scenes more variety.
   The editing software we will use is iMovie. Crazy part is.... none my team mates know how to use it, including myself. We plan on learning as we go. I’ll try my best to watch YouTube videos in order to teach myself but I’m honestly feeling doubtful about it. One thing I completely suck at is editing. I just don’t know how to do it as well as I’d like. The reason we chose iMovie to edit is because it will not leave a watermark on our music video. We would like to present this music video as originally and smoothly as possible. This includes no choppy scenes and transitions. Hopefully all goes well.

Final Filming Blog

   So far, the filming process has been a success. Although my team mates and I are not completely done, we’ve definitely made some progress. We all met up at the beach like I stated we would in the previous blog. I must admit though that things did not go as planned. At the end of the day, we all have our own lives to live outside of this class. The amount of time we needed to have in order to film was restricted. I had to be at work by 5, but Friday, the day we filmed, was the only day all 3 of us would be available. Saturday, the next day, Jahnell would be going out of town and Micahia had to go to work. I would be available on Saturday but it wouldn’t work out being that I was scheduled to get off at 5. Because of the time  change, by 5 the sun is on its way down. My team mates and I did not have any dark scenes in mind for this music video.
   At the beach, we got to film about 4 scenes. It was honestly fun and I had a good time. I got to bring my friend/co worker along so that she can help along the way. If we were stuck on something and or needed an idea, she was there. We used her sort of as a producer. I even got to meet someone new. This person was the guy that we used for a special part of our music video. He’s Micahias friend. He honestly saved us from getting hit with a big bullet. This big bullet would’ve been us not having a guy to act in our music video.
  Overall, we got everything done. The time limit of 11-3 had us in a hurry to get as much things out the way as possible but we did it. This Saturday we are all scheduled to go to Micahia’s house to finis h filming. I can’t wait to edit. I feel that the final product will be worth all the stress. Unfortunately, I will not be able to update you guys on Saturday being that this has to be my final filming blog. I’m not opposed to this as we are almost done. Saturday I will go to Micahia’s house after work. It’ll be Micahia, Jahnell, Tavarus (male actor) and I. The reason for going to her house is for the home scenes . Certain scenes will need to be filmed indoor amongst the fact that we ran out of time this weekend.