Editing The Music

    As it stands now, we are done with editing our music video. Emily and I traded hands working on the editing since she illustrated the storyboard, she took over ordering the footage, while I cut, deleted and pieced together it. Luckily it went a lot smoother than the first time editing. We didn't run into any technical issues until the very end. Even in the end we only ran into a slight hiccup which was easily fixed by a computer reset. Pinnacle Studios had frozen and wasn't allowing any other function on the computer. The window wouldn't close so I decided to shut the computer down, resetting everything, and it worked.

    I, personally am extremely proud of the finished product. I am amazed at the amount we could do with the limited resources we had. It's, not anything ground-breaking, but I do find it visually pleasing. I tried doing a lot more transitions in the music video to reduce the choppy feel between each scene that I felt in the commercial,  and I feel like I accomplished that. I put fades and dissolves in between each scene so that it would feel like a progressing story. I wanted to give the illusion of time and it slowly passing by as the camera focused on the subjects. I'm most proud of the fact that I succeeded in making the film black and white. It wasn't very hard, but the effect it has makes it look astonishing, at least in my opinion. As a group, we all agree the film is the best we can do, but I think this is a massive step in improvement.

    The only part I feel is odd is the music. The song we chose is a little more than two minutes long, and we have a limitation of one minute and fifteen seconds. We had to cut and mess around with the sound to get it to end well. It doesn't end and the end of the song, but instead of right before the chorus, it's a nice end but could be better. Not only does the end of the song bother me, but the start of it does make me ecstatic either. I wanted to start the song the moment Emily presses the button on camera, but we ended up playing the song throughout because of time. We were over-time for a while when we started wrapping up production. We cut some of the "credits" at the end and sped up the beginning and some transition scenes to shorten our time. We went from a minute and twenty I believe to a few milliseconds shy of a minute and fifteen.