Editing the Music Video

Before we begin to edit, we dump all the footage from the SD card into a folder. We then watched all of the clips and selected the few takes that we will use. Once those were placed as raw footage in the editing software, we began the editing process. In the beginning, there were 12 scenes from our storyboard. Despite there being many takes, Mariapaula and I needed to agree on which video would be the best for the final scene. We placed all of our footage onto the program (iMovie) as the first step. Then, I went through each of the clips and cut the audio from them. When editing, I glance and analyze how the scenes would work and what could be taken out and what can be changed. I had to shorten some of the videos because the actual scene would be enacted in the middle of the video. We tested how we could change the speed in some scenes and to see if it could enhance the scene, which did for some of them.

There is an adjustment in iMovie where you can stabilize a video that is shaky. This setting helped improve many of our scenes. Mostly because it make the music video much smoother. Then, we used a website which converts YouTube videos into audio files. I had to go copy the link of the YouTube video of the song we were using, and download it as an mp3 audio. We added it to the third track of our music video. Mariapaula figured out how to make the music best fit and cut a bit of the beginning of it. She then cut the audio clip and shortened it to our last lyric at the end of the video. We expected our music video to be just a bit over a minute and with the song added, the music video came out about a minute and 8 seconds.

While we were editing the third, fifth, and sixth scene, Mariapaula and I did not like the way they played together. We also noticed one of the scenes wasn't filmed right. Also, when we had "finished" editing, the video came out only 58 seconds long. We had to figure out what was wrong with those scenes, and how to fix it; so we planned to reshoot them on December 1. When done reshooting, we imported the new footage which also made the video longer than a minute. Something we wanted to do with our music video was put together the lyrics to match with whats happening in the scenes. Mariapaula suggested scenes 5-7 to fit with the song, but it wouldn't have the start of Verse 2 to start with scene 8. But, we had to make Verse 2 to fit with the scenes after 8 because then the song would end correctly for the music video. We then added a few transitions in areas that suggested there was a new locations (cross-dissolve). We had finished the editing process and I exported the music video.