Music Video Editing

On November 3rd, 2019, our team gathered together at the beginning of class to start the process of editing. From the start, both me and Melshida brought our recorded footage and presented the product to each other. Once when the whole team was present at the start of class, the process of dumping the scenes came to play. The first scenes that got dumped onto our team's personal Macbook computer was the scenes that was recorded with the setting of a backyard. I provided the scenes that was recorded in my backyard which was originally supposed to be recorded at Warfield Park. Next, Melshida dumped her scenes that she recorded onto the team's laptop to start editing. Melshida provided scenes that consisted of clips showing a movie being watched along with the process of making popcorn. Originally, instead of showing a short clip of a movie being watched the scene was supposed to consist of a slumber party taking place. All the scenes both me and Melshida recorded over Thanksgiving break was transferred onto the Macbook laptop. Once when all of the scenes was dumped onto the laptop, the editing process has begun.

Flash forward to November 5th, 2019, our team met again to continue editing our music video. The first step we as a team conducted was organize each scene. Rejoice from her laptop clicked and dragged each scene dumped onto their proper order. The orders in which the scenes were organized was based solely on the order presented within the storyboard. From what the storyboard presents, the scenes that was first included were the scenes that took place in a backyard. The scenes that had the backyard setting was reviewed to check if any scene had to be rerecorded. So far, the only scene our group decided to rerecord was the part where one of the actors walk up to the camera along with the scene where the actor pours water onto the other. Besides the two scenes that needs more attention, the rest of the backyard scenes was included and ready to be edited. The next scenes that was fixed onto the software was the popcorn making clip and the scene where the actor watches a movie. Both scenes was reviewed and the team found no mistakes that had to be redone. Following the scene came the clips that involved the schoolyard which was rerecorded multiple times to get the effect of the actor looking like they were falling.

Once when all of the raw footage was placed in chronological order, the team wanted to include an effect where at one point in the music video everything will reverse right back to the beginning. The team implemented the reverse effect to check which speed the scenes should be reversed in. By the end, we settled on the speed read 8x which makes the scenes less slow and appear more realistically reversed. Rejoice dragged the scenes that had the reversed effect onto the back of the music video. In the beginning,the music video will have all of the scenes playing normally at its moderate pace. Once when the music video reaches a certain point towards the end the duplicated clip of the music video will be played but in reverse. The music video will start in the beginning and end up right in the beginning. Overall, when it came to editing the music video as a whole, our team didn't do as much edits. However, we did drag the scenes from the laptop and placed it onto the IMovie program our team is using for the editing process. Our team as well, organized the scenes according to the order of the storyboard and we began the editing process with figuring out how we wanted the scenes in reverse to appear in the final product.