Music Video Editing Blog

 

    My group and I decided to start the editing process the same day we finished filming, which was December 4th. We decided to do this because it had already been so difficult for all of us to get together due to the pandemic and so we thought it would be best to take advantage of the time we had together. We decided to edit our music video on the program iMovie since the four of us were very familiar with the program.

    While we were filming we decided to do multiple takes of each scene so we had backup footage incase certain parts of shots were no useable. However, because of this, this meant that we had a lot of footage to sort through. The four of us got together and all looked at each take we filmed one by one and then selected the takes that we thought would work the best for what we were trying to achieve in our music video. Once chose all the takes we wanted, we transferred them onto the computer and uploaded them to the iMovie program. We then went through each take again and cut certain parts out as we saw fit. Some of the takes were minutes long but had multiple parts in which we could use. For these shots, we had to duplicate the take and then cut out the multiple specific parts that we needed.

  We made sure that throughout the entire video there were transitions that ran smoothly. In our music video, in each scene one person is supposed to fade away to symbolize that they have passed away, How we achieved this through editing was that we filmed two shots, one in which the person was there and one in which the person wasn't there. Then when it came to editing, we put the two shots one after the other and made sure they lined up exactly. This meant that sometimes we would have to either cut parts of the shot out or crop the shots due to size differences between the first and second shot. We then put a transition on it to make it seem like the person is disappearing. For some of the scenes, in particular the dog walking scene, this proved a little bit difficult since the two shots did not line up exactly. We had to take our time and patiently work on cutting the shots and editing the transition between the shots in order to get it just right. 

   In comparison, in other scenes, such as the last scene in which we are all seen toasting, our transition and disappearance of one of our group members worked out perfectly. The two shots lined up perfectly and so when we added the transition, both shots seemed to flow flawlessly. Overall, the editing went smoothly and we did not have many complications throughout the process.



   

   

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