Editing Blog: Editing the Beach Music Video

Today we will be talking about the editing process of the music video. As you know we filmed our music video Sunday at Hollywood Beach. With the many problems we faced while filming I was hoping that editing was the easier part of the project. To my expectations it was. But editing did have a couple problems per usual. First of all we were having difficulties with the original editing program we were suppose to use, Pinnacle. But last project we also didn't use that program we there wasn't much change because it was what we were use to. What we use to edit is iMovie. Its the easiest for us to edit on compared to Pinnacle. The scenes that we filmed the first day at the beach were not usable so admittedly we knew that we couldn't use that in our video. Unlike that footage the rest was great and clear. One of the first things we knew we had to do was edit the actual song into the video footage. If we didn't do this the music video would be just us singing and dancing to no song. We also had to edit the seagulls quacking. We also had to edit the sound of the waves crashing onto the shoreline. In the footage where we were dancing and doing the routine that we made up we had to do several things in editing. First was merging all the good clips together. We had several clips where we messed up or we weren't coordinated. Second is there were kids also at the beach, obviously cause its a public place, and they were in our shots. We also obviously had to merge all the clips together. As well as all the basic editing.

Filming Blog: Sunday at The Beach

Sunday was our first uninterrupted filming day. As you know last blog I explained that our day was cut short due to the rain. The shots we got from that day were also not usable footage. It was just plain bad footage. Sunday wasn't all sunshine and rainbows either though, no pun intended haha. The first challenge that was brought to our attention even before Sunday was we didn't know when we were gonna meet up. I was out town in Key West when we could've had the chance to film but luckily I got back Friday. Anyiah was out of town the whole break. Regardless she wouldn't be able to film because to say the least the sand and ocean don't mix well with her cast. Stephanie was free the whole break but we obviously couldn't just have one person in the music video. So we finally decided that we could film with just Stephanie and I on Sunday. Sunday came around and even more issues popped up like our friends/extras couldn't come and we didn't have the proper props we had in mind to shoot the music video. We also only had an hour to film because our plans for filming were being cut short by our parents. Under the circumstances I believe our music video is the best it can be. The first thing we did when we got to the beach was set up the camera and started planning our first shot. We did pan shots, wide shots, close ups, and many more. The more difficult part of this day was creating a dance to do. Music videos usually have dances in it so we figured why not. I'm not the best dancer but it was fun dancing in the ocean while trying not to get tumbled over by the waves. We did multiple shots of the dance and once we were done with that it was onto the next shot. We got shots of seagulls and the beautiful ocean. The song choice was fun and upbeat  so we decided to do some cartwheels to put a little movement into the video. The last shot was us falling into the ocean after doing the final dance. We packed up the stuff once we got all the shots we needed and left with memories and great footage of a nice day at the beach.