Time to Edit 💻

    Once I finished filming a the scenes for my music video I checked all of the shots we took to make sure I was set and had everything I needed. Once I had everything, I took my SD card and placed it into the SD card reader that is automatically on my laptop. I dumped all of my footage on a folder that I created on my desktop and copied all of it onto that folder. Once it finished dumping I checked to see if all of my footage moved onto the folder and it did. I will be doing my editing on my computer at home. I was able to convince my parents to purchase Pinnacle Studios because there was a 10 dollar off sale going on. I also started to get irritated by the school computers being slow, dying, and lagging. On my laptop I noticed how fast and efficient Pinnacle Studios works on my computer. I downloaded Pinnacle Studios over Thanksgiving break so I was able to edit over the break but, sadly I didn't because I was sleeping in the whole break. I was able to start editing on Monday when we came back to school from Winter break and I was back on the grind. 

    What I did first when editing was import all of my footage onto Pinnacle Studios which didn't take a while like it would have in class. After all the footage imported I decided was shots I wanted my music video to be. I decided that I will use the end of the song and shots that corresponds to that part of the song. I had to cut or trim much of the scenes because it was longer than one minute. Once I cut the shots I wanted it ended being exactly one minute and fourteen seconds. Which is the exact amount I wanted my music video to be. Once I finished editing the shots and putting it together, I opened up YouTube and a mp3 link converter so that I can save the music onto my computer. I copied the link and pasted it into the mp3 converter site and I was able to save the song onto my computer under Music and now I will have it saved in case something deletes or happens. I went onto Pinnacle Studios and added the song into the background. But before I did, I made sure that all the shots and scenes together on AV Track 2 was muted of sound. 

   Editing for me was super easy and fun since I was playing my music and editing. Although I am not finished with editing my Music video I plan to finish over the weekend and turn it in before the deadline through email. This is the first time that I actually enjoyed the editing process since the commercial project. I hope that for future filming projects I will have the same feeling and enjoyment for the editing process. Since I was working alone this whole music video project I definitely felt a type of freedom and could let my creativity fully let go during this project. So far with what I have edited I'm really happy with the results. The music video so far is everything I visioned it to be. The only thing I have to still focus on during my editing is to align the music with the dance just like how I wanted the dance to go with the song. But other than that I will be finished with editing my music video and I could export it onto my folder located on my desktop. Once I finish, I will turn in my Music video project and all I can focus on Monday is my CCR that will be due on December 11. 

Finally Filming 🙌

 During my Thanksgiving break I was able to actually start filming with the camera and tripod. I made sure to finish all my filming on Wednesday, November 27 so that I wouldn't have to film in the last minute and so that I can rest up during the break. Filming was stressful but extremely fun. The only stressful part of the filming process was messing up on the dances and having to redo the whole scene again. On Monday, November 25, I sent out the dance video I made to my friend Allison so that she would familiarize with the dance and I showed the dance to my sister so she would be prepared as well. On Wednesday I went to my synagogue's apartment with my friends and sister since the location of the video was changed to film outside in the open field with trees and bushes that the apartment provides. At first we practiced the dance inside the apartment the full dance and decided to film the music video into 4 segments to make it easier on us. While practicing we changed up some dance moves and finalized what we were going to do in each segment. Once we finished practicing we changed into our costumes and headed our way outside to set up the camera and tripod. My friend Rahel worked the camera and was doing all the camera movements and making sure we were in frame. She did such an amazing job and we had so much fun filming and spending quality time with each other. Although we had rough patches during filming we managed to get everything done.
   We spent about 2 and half hours outside filming the scenes I needed for the music video. I was able to get all the scenes and it came out perfect. While we were outside on a little box we placed my phone playing the song in the background so we knew what to do for each segment we filmed. Since the filming process took a lot of our time and exhausted us we slowly started to become irritated with each other if one of us messed up. Overall we had a fun time together my friend Allison texted me the next day thanking me for allowing her to be a part of my music video. After filming we were treated to pizza for our hard work. Since we were standing and dancing for almost 2 and a half hours outside we were extremely exhausted and sweaty when we went back inside the apartment. What I decided to cut out from my music video and the storyboard was the shots of the trees and flowers because after recording and re-watching the scenes I didn't think it was necessary anymore to be in my music video. The background in the scenes will provide a bright and nature theme to my music video. Once all our filming was complete we were jumping up and down clapping, happy that we finally finished.