Music Video: Editing

On December 3rd and 5th, my group members and I edited our music video. Though, it was one group member in particular that did all of the editing. This group member was Lauren. The rest of us guided and gave our input and suggestions. The editing was done on her MacBook Air laptop in class. First we dumped the footage onto her laptop. We did this using an SD Card reader and a plugin extension. Once the footage was dumped it was exported to a video editing application. This application is called iMovie. Once all of the footage loaded, it was time to edit.

There were many takes of the same scene. We all sat together and assessed all of the different takes we had. We did this to make sure that we all agreed on which takes we likes the most. Starting with the first scene, there were three different takes of this scene. The first one had all of us in it, the second had three of us in it, and the third had two of us in it. That was the only difference between the takes. We decided to go with the first one. The second scene was more of an individual decision since it showed us singularly. The third, forth, and fifth scenes didn’t really appeal to us; so, it wasn’t difficult to choose which takes we wanted to use. For scenes six through fifteen there was only one take since we were satisfied with what we shot. We had no choice but to use what we had. Finally for the last scene there were five takes and we decided to go with the second one.

As I previously mentioned in my other blogs regarding this music video, my group members and I wanted to add in different transitions and special effects. We feel as though the use of these will make our video more unique, creative, and interesting. The transitions that we used were swipe, spin in, spin out, circle close, mosaic, and swap. The special effects used were slow motion and high speed. There are more effects that we want to add in though. These are the led animation effect and the melting words effect for the title. I will be doing these effects on my laptop on another video editing application. Even if I don’t accomplish this I know that the music video will be a knockout.