Music Video Edditing blog

  Today we finally finished this hard trial of editing our film and i'm glad we are finally done with this project. It has been over 3 days of editing this footage and each day had its own problems. The first day of editing was a day right after we filmed all of our footage. The whole day we were trying to transfer our footage from Paige's phone to Pinnacle studios. This was a tough problem to solve because nothing was working. At first we tried to transfer the film by Gmail. This didn't work because it couldn't handle transfering all of them at once so we tried doing them one by one we transferred the film one by one and it started going smoothly. Half way through transfering the film  some of shots wouldn't transfer. We spent the rest of the period trouble shooting on how to fix this problem and we asked Ms. Kats and she gave us her flash drive so paige could transfer all of the film at home from her computer to the flashdrive so we can use it at school.
   The next day of editing it also had it troubles. Paige and I kept switching back and forth on if we should use the vertical shots and horizontal. At first we were going to do a mix but everything looked garbage. All of our film was filmed in a vertical view and some in horizontal. Paige and I thought that The whole film had to be horizontal so we tried to work that out. We tried to crop out the top of the vertical shots and add borders, but that didn't work that well and left shots janky. With that option not working it left us with two paths. The first was to film the non horizontal shots horizontal, making us film more or just do it all in vertical form. We ended up Choosing the latter, which we are both happy about.
  The last day of editing was today which probably had the most frustrating problem. We had to fix a lot of the footage, which was sideways because it transferred wrong from paige's phone. This was the only problem that we were not able to fix. We tried a lot of different ways to change this, in pinnacle studios and outside of pinnacle studios like windows movie editor. All of these did not work and it was very frustrating. Although none of these worked, we tried I-movie and this saved us. None of the transfering problems ever occurred to us when we used I-movie because it was already on paige's phone. It literally took Paige and I about 10 minutes to figure out the app, transfer all of the film and, edit the shot and it was done.
 

Music Video Filming Blog part 2

   We finished filming for our music video about a week ago, but there is still stuff that pertains to filming that we need to do. Half of our shots were filmed vertical, not horizontal. The shots are not supposed to be vertical, because it will look janky when viewing it on a horizontal screen. All of the footage that was filmed vertical was the easiest footage to film, only needing paige and her dog. All of those scenes would probably take from 30-45 minutes to do. So paige decided that she could do all of those scenes, but i didn't agree. I felt really bad about her doing all of those shots by herself, but she made me do another thing. I had to "find" the music for the music video, which is took me less than 2 minutes to "find" the music and download it. 

   The film that we already filmed before that was horizontal, or that could be changed into a horizontal shot had its problems too. The first problem was that the film wouldn't email from paige's phone. We were using paige's phone in the first place because we forgot to charge the camera. It took awhile for us to try new ways of finding a way to transfer the film. We tried email, which sent half od shots, the others didn't work. Some of the film was to long, and others we couldn't find a reason why they wouldn't go through. We tried google docs, which didn't work as well. Then Ms. Cats came to our rescue.

   Ms. Cats offered us to use her flash drive, which saved our skins. I don't have an idea of what we had of done if Ms. Cats didn't offer us the flash drive I wouldn't know what to do. With the flash drive we couldn't use at school. since none of the footage would transfer to the school computers because of the bad school wifi and the bad storage of the school computers. Paige had to transfer the film to the flash drive because she had the film on her phone. Transfering from her phone to her computer was a lot easier from any other methods we have tried to do before.

Music Video Fillming Blog

    So we started filming and it was a lot better than the last project. This project we got to do outside of school, which was one of the leading reasons why it was easier. I rode my bike to Paige's house to do our first shot, witch was right on the end of her block. the shot was a simple one, with us using a flyer that had a lost dog, that paige taped onto the street corner pole. the next scene was the one were we set the location of the film. we walked over to harbor island and did the shot in front of the gates that lead into the park. The next shot was introducing paige's dog Evie, with her just wandering around.
    The next scene is paige wandering around, trying to find evie. this and most of all of the scenes were all taken multiple times and most of the shots were all different then the last. Most of the time we were just trying new camera movements and angles, and just testing out new stuff. The next shot we have paige and Evie find each other and the shot was a mix of a pan and a over the shoulder.
the next slide was the reunion scene. when we filmed this scene, we actually combined the next scene together when filming because they go back to back on the storyboard and are at the same location. Those 2 shots were made into a pan, that goes left to right, right to left and back to left to right, following paige and evie. For the seventh shot we had paige hook Evie's leash on her collar, it was just a normal shot that was full body. The next shot Evie and paige run at the camera, and the shot is slomo, and it is a low angle
  For the next shots we introduced people and dogs other than Paige and Evie. Paige and I got some of our friends that live in our neighborhood and that live near harbor island, were we were filming. We had 4 friends who brought their dogs with them. For the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th scenes we had each of the friends besides one of them who i replaced and held their dogs. for all of those shots it was just full body or just medium close up. After we filmed all of these shots we checked over all of the film and we realized a problem. most of not if all of the footage was filmed as a vertical shot, not horizontal. however i can fix this problem, buts thats for another time.