editing blog

           The last part of our music video was to edit and put it together. I watched most of the scenes and cut out what needed to be done. I like the video that has come out of it. I wanted to try to use pinnacle studios again but i just cant get the hang of it. Honestly its much easier to transfer from the drive to the laptop but the program itself just isn't working for us. So instead e did it the longer way to use imovie. What we did to make this happen took a while but in the end it made it the best way for us to put our film together. First i used the cord to connect the camera to my computer at home. Then i saved everything to my computer and made a file for the film shots. Then i opened google and transferred it over to the google drive to make it easier to access from my phone. Then downloaded the clips onto my phone from the google drive. I know it was easier to just get the file and email it to my phone but sadly when i did that it wasn't working. For some reason when i opened it on my phone it wouldn't load. Then i thought about it and figured maybe it wasn't loading completely because it wasn't in the proper program. so i held everything down and pressed save so it would all go to my camera roll. But it wasn't going to my camera roll either so i had to completely abandon that idea and figure out a better but sadly longer way to get it there.since we could edit this in class together we decided we would share to to each other so everyone could add and do their fair share. So my share was getting it all on to the program and looking through which clips we were actually gonna use in the project. Their wasn't much that i didn't use just some of the shots of the beach. Lily edited through to the middle and aniyah went and finished the rest.Then i went back and looked through to see if anything could be better. But The girls and I did that together so it was more of constructive criticism. We didn't make many changes to the video after it was edited. It was mostly just cutting tiny bits off the ends to make everything come together better. I watched it so much because i wanted it to really smoothly transition from shot to shot. We got a pan in and dancing shots in. There some zoom ins to it too. we even got some shot of the seagulls flying so we could add sound over it. This process went a lot better than before with the commercial. I liked the fact that it came together better and didn't have so many complications like the commercial. I wanted so bad to get used to pinnacle studios because its so much easier to get the film onto the actual program but i just don't like the way its set. I grew up using Imovie so using it now and editing with it comes easier to me. That's it for blogging on editing bye.

film blog the beach sucess

          so today was the first day back from break and boy was it hard to get together to film. As you know in the previous weekend we got rained out on the only day we could meet and we didn't film through the rain because it didn't have the right vibe. Obviously, we were on break because of thanksgiving. The point of it was to spend time with our family. The whole week I was free but lily wasn't. Then when she got back we were both busy on Saturday. I know what you were thinking about how about just meet with Anyiah? well, she was busy with family and also Anyiah is currently injured. she has a brace around her knee and crutches in sand don't mix well at all. Lily and I finally got to a time where both her parents and my parents allowed us to go out to do the project. We only had about an hour so it became very stressful. Everybody has trouble communicating with their parents and I think I was so stressed I wasn't properly communicating to my mom how bad I wanted to get a good grade and take time to film and not just rush something together. I was disappointed because we originally had people that were gonna come to be background. They were gonna dance and lip sink. The most important job of theirs was bringing in the props. But that failed. Everyone had to cancel because of either their own projects or because their parents wouldn't let them go out on a Sunday because of homework and church. But I think me and lily made it work pretty well for just the two of us. We first took our pan shots of the beach which was absolutely stunning let me tell you we caught it at the perfect time of the day. Then we moved on to getting shots of the seagulls so we could add the sound of them making their noise for the more beach vibe. Then we took the time to place the tripod perfectly so we could start filming without having anybody behind the camera since it was just the two fo us. We successfully shot everything we needed and overall I say it was a good learning experience that you cant always rely on other more than you can rely on yourself. If I would have taken responsibility for the beach supplies the shoot would have been a lot more fun and true to the original video. I was actually happily surprised to watch the shot and realize how well we made it work even though it was just the two of us with nothing else to work with.  My favorite scene to shoot was the end scene because we got to jump into the water all dramatically. We also through in some cartwheels here and there for a splash of fun. I'm excited to see how this all gets put together. A lot of work went into making this go smooth so I hope it doesn't go to waste. I'm glad I chose this group again we always get things done even if we can't do it under the best circumstances.