editing blog

 This class I started to edit the music video. We finally finished filming all of the footage on Tuesday and were ready to begin the editing. When editing we faced many challenges. First, the school laptops are very old and super slow. It took forever for everything to load. From just turning on the computer it took almost twenty minutes for the computer to even start. Then after the computer finally loaded getting onto Pinnacle Studios was another challenge. It would always show the message that the computer could not load Pinnacle Studios. So after three computers of showing the same message we went to talk to the teacher for help. She noticed that we were trying to import straight from my jump drive rather then creating a folder then importing.
 So we made the folder and imported the footage into the folder. At that point we were finally able to start editing. For the first couple of clips of the video, everything was going smoothly. Then when we were nearing the middle part of the music video we noticed another problem. Some of the footage was blocked by Pinnacle Studios. We couldn't view the videos while we could see others. Once again we went to our teacher for help. She was very confused because she never saw that problem before. She thought that it was because we filmed it on our phone but every other clip that was showing up was shot on the phone as well. So we made the choice to give up on Pinnacle Studios and use IMovie instead.
Everything was going so much better with IMovie until we yet again faced another challenge. When we were done editing everything the music video was only forty seconds. It has to be at least one minute five seconds.  But we figured out some ways to add more time. We are going to add a title slide and an ending slide. These both will add more time. Also, if we still need more time we will film some more footage. These things should get us to the correct time. Although we faced many difficulties we got the music video done. It was a long process but I am happy it is finished

filming blog 2

Two weekends ago I started filming our music video with my group mates. We were able to get majority of the video filmed. We still have a little bit more to do. It should not take us more than an hour to finish the filming process.  I was unable to film during the Thanksgiving break. I went up to my grandparents house in Vero Beach, about two hours north from where I live. I got back last Saturday so we could have gotten together yesterday, but all of us were busy and it did not work out. We are trying to get together sometime during this week to finish.  It is very hard sometimes to make plans after school since all of us play sports and do extracurriculars. If it doesn't work out for us to meet during the week we will definitely get together over the weekend.

We are all trying very hard to meet up as soon as possible. If we finish the filming in the next couple of days I will have more time to edit. I will be able to use class time. Editing takes a while so the more time we have for it the better. I do not want to be up very late sunday night trying to finish the music video. Also, I will have to do the critical reflections questions so we are trying to get the filming done fairly quickly. If we have to film over the weekend we can, it is just easier during the week. Tomorrow in class I am going to dump the footage we have already shot and start editing that footage. We can always add the new footage to the older ones once it is filmed.

All we have left to film is the last fifteen to twenty seconds. Part of the issue last time we filmed was we kinda got distracted. We would get distracted or goof off when we should have been using the entire time we had to film. This time I am going to make sure we don't get of tract and focus. The editing process will be very similar to the commercial editing. The main difference is the music. Last time when we tried to add music we added a virus to the computer. This time I know how to do it better so that should not happen.