Thursday, December 5, 2019

Editing Blog

Today in class we started the editing process. Jontae, Edgardo and I had to do it without Fulvio because he is out of town. Instead of using pinnacle studios to edit we are using imovie. We are doing this because we had trouble using pinnacle 
studios and this way we dont have to use the slow computers. Both Jontae and Edgardo have imovie which is a big help. Jontae is using his moms Mac book and Edgardo is using his iPad. We believe this will be a lot easier and work smoother if we use apple products. Edgardo's iPad gives us the opportunity to use touchscreen, which will be very helpful. We all have a little more experience with imovie rather than pinnacle studios so it shouldnt take as long.

We dumped all of our footage on to imovie on Edgardo's iPad. It was very smooth and did not take long. We were very relieved it didn't take long like last time when we used pinnacle studios. Once the footage was uploaded, we picked the best clips from each scene and put it together. We watched over it once and were very impressed. We then inserted the song God's Plan. This was the only thing we struggled on, we had a difficult time figuring out how to add the song. Once we finally got it we watched the video once again with the music playing, it was great. Once the music and film was on the computer in order it was a cake walk. Alls that was left to do was add transitions and then we were done.

We were all very productive during the editing process, especially when adding transitions. Edgardo was very good at thinking of the transition that would fit best. Jontae and I placed them in the appropriate spot. It was a team effort, we were very successful. We used many transitions like jump cuts, dissolve, fade in, and fade out. After we added the transitions we were done. We watched the whole video as the final product and it turned out better then we expected. I sent it to Fulvio to insure he approved and he did. We were all very relieved to be done and were proud of what we created. We learned a lot throughout the creation of this video and we are getting better and better at filming and editing. I'm excited to be able to rest this weekend without the worry of filming or editing.

Monday, December 2, 2019

Filming Blog (FOR REAL)

Over our Thanksgiving break not only did we eat turkey, but we also filmed our music video. From Tuesday after school November 26th to Friday morning November 29th we all had family in town. Due to this we were unable to film any of these days. I took charge and texted in the group chat that we needed to get it done. Saturday November 30th was a no go for Jontae and Edgardo because they had basketball. On Sunday December 1st Fulvio went to the Dolphins game so we could not film that day either. Luckily all of our families left earlier on friday so we were able to film later in the day. We all agreed on a time and met at the Galleria mall. Fulvio ran a little late so we didn't film at the exact time we wanted. Our communication was much better which led to us actually filming.

The actual filming process was pretty smooth. We took multiple shots for each scene to insure we had good footage. The scene that we had the most trouble with was the scooter scene it took us a while to find a scooter. Once we finally found some it took us a while to use them because we had to download the app for it which took long. Once we finally had them moving we took a lot of shots of us riding because it was blurry at some points. We also struggled finding homeless people willing to be in our video. Its not as easy as it sounded but we did find one. Overall it was a success we got our footage and we think our video will turn out really good.

Tomorrow in class we will begin editing. We have some experience from our music video so it should be pretty smooth. Although the computers are pretty slow if we start early we can hopefully finish all of it and be done. Throughout the course of planning and filming we learned a valuable lesson which was communication is key. Due to our great communication over break we were able to film and knock it out. I'm very excited to see how this video turns out. The hard part is done (filming) it's now just editing. Although we came across a couple problems while filming we found our way around them and were able to get our footage. Overall we had a very successful filming process.