Editing music video

We had two in class days to work on editing our video. The first day we couldn’t work on it because we forgot the cord. We recorded with our phones instead of the camera for a couple of reasons. First, one of my teammates had to leave on vacation and had the camera with him. We also realized that our phones had good resolution them selves so we thought it would be easier with multiple cameras to use. We also thought it would be better to dump with them because of iCloud and a wire which we forgot at home. My teammate even tested it at home to see if it worked. As he was checking however, he left the cord in the computer. There wasn’t too much editing anyway in our video though. All we had to do was add the shots together and put music over it.

The second day of editing however went a lot better. We brought the wire and dumped our footage. When we dumped, we saw that the video was too long so we cut some stuff. We we cut each shot individually to make it a bit shorter. We also cut an entire shot out of it. It was a shot that was planning over the ocean. It didn’t really work with the video because there was no room for it. It was at the beginning but we already had a time lapse of the ocean and it made it look over used. After that it was the right time but then we realized that it was missing a scene because our teammate was going film their own clip at home. So we trimmed some other stuff leaving room for it. Finally we were done and all we need was to add the music.

Unfortunately, the class was over and we didn’t have time to finish. One of my teammates volunteered to edit over the weekend. He said he could do it all by himself but we offered to come over and help. So during the weekend we will add music over the video. We decided to put the music over the lobster when it’s first introduced. The music will be quite at first and then be the normal music when it gets closer. Then we were going to put the music lowers when the lobster in the pot. The music will be completely off when the pot closes over it. After that we won’t need to put anything else in our video. The editing will be over and we will have our final product.

Filming blog

We filmed today after school. It was fun and we learned a lot from last time we filmed. we knew that we had way too many shots for last project so we went a little easy. First we went to see where to start filming. We went to the beach and found a place where the main character can chill. I had a snack and set up a shot from my phone. We had a time lapse set up for five minutes as we filmed other shots. We had all of our props ready and it was a close call because we had limited daylight. The weather was really windy too but we just fought through it. After all of this we were ready to film.

It started off with me walking to the beach. I laid out my towel and relaxed until I heard a song. The crab that was named lobster was playing music that really annoyed the man. So he moved his setup. In his field of view he saw a man dressed like a lobster juggling rocks. He ducks all the rocks that get thrown at him. He runs away because he doesn't want to be crushed with rocks. Then he finds a bottle on the floor. He drinks it because he thinks he is seeing things. The water tastes really bad like salt water and spits it out immediately. He reads the label and it says rock lobster.

Then it goes into a short dance scene. I thought it was pretty funny. We had see through tape to make the crab dance like a puppet. We had the guy playing the lobster dance in different places. The dance was a dance where you would squat down a bit and pinch in the air like a crab or a lobster. Then it ends with the lobster being put in a pot. The music stops when the lid gets put over the pot. We haven't filmed the pot part yet. One of my teammates are going home and will film it tonight by himself. Tomorrow we will edit our film and I think it will make it so good.