Editing Blog Music Video

Anyeska, Jazmin, Brit and I all worked on editing our music video. It took up the majority of our class time, and unfortunately, the editing process did not go well. Although I was able to dump all the footage from the SD card to the desktop, it took a while to view each scene we would use and for the computer to handle the download size. Eventually, I was able to finish the downloading process and save it all into Google Drive. After this, I found and downloaded The Lazy Song, by Bruno Mars onto the computer. Once I was ready to edit, I opened Pinnacle Studios and imported the footage and audio into the program. From there, I started editing the raw footage. It was difficult to do this because the preview of a scene (on the right side of the screen) would lag and slow down the computer. Thus, it took me some time to figure out the different scenes just by their image, when I was trying to match it to the lyrics. The following paragraph will explain the different tools I tried to use and what happen during my editing process.

Due to the fact that our class time was running short, we were only able to begin editing the first scene. First, I used a razor blade icon to split the first scene because it was too long and unnecessary. I thought to detach the audio from the shot, but it helped to match the first lyrics to our dance. Since the background sound was the actual song, we wanted to dance or act out each scene with a reference and to potentially benefit us while editing. I had difficulty trying to place the first scene as soon as the initial lyrics: "Today I don't feel like doing anything" started. Apparently, Pinnacle Studios uses a magnetic timeline, in which any clip you drag and drop into the timeline snaps to any existing clips. I did not know that you can turn that function off, so I struggled doing that. I let my group members try to fix or get the scene to where we wanted it, but they didn’t know how to either. With little time left, we decided to end our editing process and rely on starting and finishing it next class. Unfortunately, after I saved our music video my group mate Anyeska deleted the footage from the desktop, thinking that I wouldn’t need it, but it backfired and ended up disabling the footage from pinnacle studios. I ended up solving the problem even though it took up 5 minutes of editing time.

There are editing techniques I planned to use in the music video. Some include adding a title screen, subtitles, cropping footage, and a fade in/out. Hopefully next class, when we continue editing that I'll see a vision along with my group members of our music video coming to life. I also hope that editing will be successful. I think it may be hard at first, but my team mates and I seem to be experienced and ready to edit our footage. The only type of sound I plan to use in the music video is background music. The camera movements and angles we used were: High angle, tilt shot, pan shot, long shot, medium close up shot, over the shoulder, point of view, zoom in/out. All of these editing techniques will be used while editing our music video. We will try to edit so it comes in between 1:05 to 1:15. Ultimately, I will create a fun and interesting music video that will excite and engage audiences.

Music video Filming blog

When it came to filming, we made sure to be extra careful with timing and placement. We did this because we did not want there to be any inconsistencies when it came to the music video. We did not want the music to be out of sync with the characters’ actions. We also did not want the items and characters to be in different places in different scenes. These inconsistencies would cause the music video to be flawed and imperfect. In order to get rid of these problems, we memorized placement of every character in each scene. Every character was accounted for and was placed in the same place as the previous scene when it came to dancing scenes. We also played the music in the background in order to know when certain actions should be performed. This was done to match the music worth the characters’ actions.


In my opinion my group and I choreographed our dancing scenes perfectly. We all decided on a dance that we would perform for the song’s lyrics. We had to practice the dance before performing it live. It took a while to decide on the dancing moves for certain lyrics. This is because some of my group mates thought certain dance moves were unnecessary and needed to be replaced. But, after a while, we compromised and created one, synchronized dance. This was done to represent the link between everyone dancing. No one was doing their own thing. We also decided to mouth the lyrics of the song in order to gain a better understanding on the timing.



We had to reshoot many scenes because they did not come out well. The reshooting process was tedious. But, through all of the reshoots, the music video turned out well. Overall, I feel like the filming process was difficult yet entertaining. It was difficult because we had to memorize certain positions of characters in order for the film to make sense. It also took us time to create a dance that went along with the song we had chosen. In the end, the film came out very good.