Editing

        Today we starting editing our music video. We use the song Love Don’t Change by Jeremiah. It’s an RnB love song, and we wanted our video to portray a message of love.  When i walked in class my team mates had already grabbed a computer for us to use. They where logging into there ID so we could go onto pinnacle studios. I already knew this editing process was going to take long. I remember how during our previous project it would freeze up. So while the computer loaded pinnacle studios, my teammates and I talked about what shots we thought we should use. This was a very mind opening conversation since, I didn’t think about what elements would place well with the song. After talking for a good 5 minuets, we where all in agreement. Now we where ready to edit.

  

       After patiently waiting on pinnacle studios to load it popped up. So I took the flash drive and put it in the computer. This was where all our footage was. I got on the computer and deleted the sample footage. One of my teammates clicked the import button and we saw another tab pop up. We clicked the folder with our flash drive name on it. I then imported the stuff from the flash drive onto pinnacle studios. It took a great deal of time for the files to finish copying.  When the files finished copying the video was ready to be edited. Now it was time to decide what footage we wanted to keep.

      I dragged the scenes slowly to the editing strip. Then we trimmed a few seconds off each scene. Suddenly I hear that class is almost over. My brain stopped for a second. We had just started editing and class was almost over. So my group mates decided to edit on Imovie. We had to edit when we got home that night. So When I got home that night I called my group mates. We talked as one of our group mates edited the scenes on her phone. It seemed easier this way, rather then using pinnacle studios. After we finished editing, my group mate sent the video to all of us, so we could look over it.

Filming...once again

Figuring out when to film was the hardest part of this whole process. Our first plan was to film over the weekend so we wouldn't need to during Thanksgiving break. Of course that didn't work so we made a new plan to film that Monday before we go on break, but the group member that was supposed to drive didn't drive to school that day and he is the only one in our group with a car. We said you know what we will just wait till we come back from break and film that Monday. We come back from break i'm excited ready to get this over with I'm walking to the cafeteria and the group member that is supposed to drive us there didn't drive to school AGAIN. At this point I'm worried that we will not get this video done and i'm going to get a 0 for 400 point project.

 We all agree that we HAVE TO go and film on Tuesday. Come Tuesday morning i'm worried that our ride is going to fall through once again. Thankful God was on our side and he drove to school. We go to the mattress store taright after school because that was the most important scene to get done. On the way I am nervous because I forgot to call the store ahead of time. We get to the store and I call the manager and ask him if we can film thankful he says yes. We get straight to filming We film the scene with the bed and that part went perfectly at this point I am so happy everything is going according to plan. 

We get to the kitchen part which we had to use a cafeteria tray because we forgot to get one from home. Jah gets to “cooking” which was really some chips on the plate, but who really cares. We decided to get the beach scene on another day because it was too cold to go to the beach. We get to school and we didn't have to dump anything because we filmed on our phones. By the way it was sooooo much easier than filming on the camera. Honestly I can say this was the hardest filming thing we had to do because of everyone conflicting schedule. Thankful we got it done though

Signing off- 

XOXO DT