Editing Blog for Music Video

When editing for the music video, I wanted to take it a step further than the commercial. I wanted to try different Fx and even try some VFX to really expand my editing capabilities. I went into editing knowing that it would take a long time but that didn't really bother me. I knew if I paced myself I would be able to complete the editing process sooner than later. When starting my edits, I had to get all the clips together. My partner Quincy sent me all the clips but he didn't listen to me when I told him to not shoot in 4k 60fps. Due to this, when  I tried to insert the video clips into my timeline I crashed my laptop. It was impossible to edit and I was frustrated. So I just uploaded the videos to Google drive because I knew it would lower the resolution and re-download them on my computer. I had to move from my laptop to my computer because I felt that it would be easier this way. I finally got all the videos in. For some reason, some of the videos wouldn't work but in due time I figured it out. After that, I finally started editing. The huge issue was syncing the lips to the song. This was close to impossible because the editing software was very slow and it was annoying. I tried my best to sync the videos but it wasn't working. So I had to compromise. If I couldn't sync anything up perfectly then I would just have to make the scenes look as pretty as possible. It was hard because the editing software I was using had a lot of limitations. I'm not done with editing yet and I'm still working on it. I wont give up at the sync issue im having and I'm going to change editing softwares to actually make a respectable music video.

Filming Process

The music video is more challenging than the commercial. A lot of organization and planning had to go into this project in order to execute it. It was difficult and tedious and stressful but we tried our best. For filming it was all about meeting up. As simple as that sound it was far from it. All three of us had to meet up in one location to film the video this was a challenge for us. We first planned on meeting up on Saturday. This was the plan but it didn’t go too well. Since we didn’t have a specific time for us to meet we just winged it and called each other to meet each other whenever. It was around 5 when I got the call to meet up. I was caught out of the blue but I tried my hardest to get there. Since my mom is as out of the house I had to find another way to get to the location. Doing this took 30 minutes and the sun was going down. I finally decided to get a Lyft and I got to the location. Right as I was pulling, I was told that it was too late to film as the sun had fully set. It was dark but that didn’t stop me. I wanted to get at least  something done and I thought it would be cool if it transition from night to day so forced my team to record something. When that was done we left and decided to meet up the next day at 3 P.M but this time we were fully prepared. I got there pretty early and didn’t waste a second. We started filming way before the sun set and we got all our shots. We did have some hiccups but it turned out great in the long run.