Editing

For our editing process, we have already made a large amount of progress since the beginning of our journey. Editing is very important to incorporate in our music video since we can’t produce any music without adding a score. Eliminating the editing of our project would also force us to show each scene individually instead of all put together. This would make our product less visually appealing and this is the opposite of what we want for the audience. We decided to use the software iMovie for our music video since it works efficiently and quickly. I have experience using this software in the past and I have had no problems creating the products of my choice. Since we are done filming for the music video we are currently working on revising these shots to our best ability. To begin this process we first had to dump all of our footage onto a computer. We learned how to do this during the beginning of the year, so this time around went smoother and in less time. We are still editing at the moment and will utilize our time wisely just like we did for the filming process.

The next step after importing all of our footage into the software is adding finishing touches to our project. Now is the time to decide whether we want to add text or where to start the added sound. Since the song we chose is “I Gotta Feeling” we will be required to add this over our scenes as our score. We also need to crop the videos to the length we think as best. This is important since we have a time limit for our project and we plan to follow it. Cropping the music is also useful to match the scenes and to ensure that we include the right part of the song. There are many other techniques that we can use to touch up our music video on iMovie and we still are making progress. More specifically, today we will work on integrating the score into our footage and see how it turns out. Based off of what we think we will add additional touches. We will include the music by screen recording the song from youtube and importing the audio only of the video.

We will use my laptop to complete the editing process of our film. If this does not go according to plan, we will utilize my phone since I have the iMovie app already on the device. We filmed our footage on our cell phones so editing on them would be rather easy. We do not have much left to complete so we can take our time creating a better final product. I have made many movies in the past on the software so there should be no trouble in finished up the editing process. Finishing the editing process will show us how much we need to improve our project. Not only did we film all of our scenes, we now also added them all together and put them as one. Now we will add the music by the Black Eyed Peas based off of our footage. After this we will be done with the full project. We will utilize the rest of the time to finish up what we have left for the editing process of our music video.