Editing Blog SAD! Music Video

Today is December 4th 2019.  over the past few days I've been the raw footage of the film. Since I was the only one that can actually edit in my group, it was time to go to work. It's easier for me edit on the software I'm using ( Sony Vegas Pro 15) than on what everyone else is doing. Editing something that is way too easy for me.  I can quickly import, export, cut parts of the videos I need in a flash. Since now we can add effect ( that's at least what I'm thinking), It got harder. With my creative mind I can start playing with effects and see what they can do. Time to carry the load. Time to Ice up.

The first process of editing for the music video was to cut parts of the song. Cutting parts of the song was the hardest for me because i had to get it just right. They had to sing correctly with whatever part I cut so it doesn't sound like crap. I probably spent more time on trying to edit the song then edit the video. The song itself was 2 minutes. I had to trim that to 1:15 (which was the max). After that I can actually start editing the film. The raw footage of the film was 11 minutes. Now how can I cut 11 minutes into 1 minute and 15 seconds? Really that's just nearly impossible to do.

Well I cut out unnecessary parts like walking to another scene. That cleared out room for at least half of the time. Now that I had my selected clips. I had to cut up some of those too. When I cut them off I get the most important parts of it. The beginning and the end was not important at all for me. Those scenes were just walking to start/stop filming with the camera. After that I starting rolling with effects. There's one effect called Camera Shake and it's funny to me. It makes me look like i started an earthquake with all of the shaking due to Rage!

Filming Blog II SAD! Music Video

Today is December 4th 2019. Recently we had to make a change of plans. We could not film at my teammates location. This was due to family problems with me.  And since I was the one with the camera, I had to film at my house.  filming at my house was pretty easy. I don't think there was really anything wrong with the filming process. Mostly a lot of stationary shot though. That probably made the film look boring but the editing process makes it better. So we start in a bedroom.

First I have to get the camera stationary and record me laying on the bed. Obviously this was a complicated process because I had to start and stop filming. Continue into the next couple of scenes, I actually included way too many unnecessary shots. Like it was part of you video game type shot. Since I paid way too much attention to details this is why I include way too many shots. Scenes I shot was like me going out of the room, in the hallway then into another room. This made the filling process seemed a lot harder than actually was.  the beginning of the story board that we originally was now changed. This was now a whole different project that we are filming. This is also my chance to be a director in the music video.

When I was finished recording the number of minutes I had was high. I mean high as a skyscraper for a 1 minute and 15 second film. I filmed 11 minutes of raw footage. And it feel like 11 minutes to me because there is also added time to that. At a time such as me walking away from the camera (once a press the button to record) to do my scene then me walking back to the camera to stop it. Obviously I have to do that multiple times. As little as 17 times in minimal. It wasn't really fun to do them but the filling process is what actually creatively done. Well for at least that's what I thought. Editing is where it's at though.