Filming Process Blog-Music Video

Over the break, on Tuesday 26th after school, my group and I finished filming at the beach. The filming for that day took a total of an hour to complete for the final scenes. The following day, I reviewed all the footage. I bought an SD card reader to convert the footage from my phone to mp4. This editing and converting process took about two hours to ensure all phone footage was properly converted. Then, the music for the video was converted to mp3. The filming had a lot of individuals around which needed to be cut from the video. I made sure the faces of these people were not too visible in the video as well. While filming, we had to make sure that the water would not harm the video camera. The weather allowed the filming to go smoothly, with no rain interfering with our shooting.

When the group met up, the director, Steven, made sure to get the best lighting. I helped set up the angles and movements with each actor, including me. To make sure we followed the song, we re-shot many scenes to match the lyrics of the song. Some interruptions occurred like people walking by or birds flying in the shots. Even more so, I was concerned with how each shot would overlap with the next scene. For example, I had to review the last park scene of us jumping to match it to the beach scene. The reason for this is so that the clips transitioned smoothly from one scene to the other. This shot was taken a total of three times to make sure it aligned. When it came to editing, I had to cut the part where we landed at the park and cut the part where we jumped at the beach. By doing so, it’s all one fluid movement from park to beach.

As for editing, I had to review the previous shots saved into the video. I dumped more footage from my SD card into my folder on the desktop. Then, I imported the clips into pinnacle studios to begin editing. The newest editing style I used was applying split screen. The editing took a couple tries to make sure the actors were properly in frame and centered. Once that was completed, I had to adjust a few scenes as they were not correctly positioned in the video. I discussed with my group of adding some lyrics on certain scenes to draw away from the black screens on the side. As a result of this however, the scene looked a bit choppy and the graphics were not as clear as they could have been. However, with our schedule, there would have been no way to reshoot the scenes that were filmed on the phone. But overall, a lot of editing was completed, with just a few more shots to be added and edited for the final product.