editing blog

 For the past couple of classes, my team and I have been editing. We have been putting together the videos we all took and matched them with the lyrics. This process has been torture for the group. The videos we took were either too shaky or wouldn't fit the frame. This made us go back out again and reshoot. And we are not even close to being finished. We have to reshoot many shots and make new ones that will match the lyrics. Tomorrow I will try and talk to my group members about assigning certain shots to each other. If not I’ll try my best in getting all the shots needed and hope my group members do too. I'll also tell them what they should try and do when they are filming.

 One of the major things I saw with my group was that we weren’t reshooting. When we explained why the most common explanation was they were timed shots or the lighting wasn't the best. For myself, I will spend multiple hours trying to get the best shots for now on knowing how important it is. I hope my group members understand the value of this too, but I'll try my best to explain it to them before the weekend. There is a rainbow shot we need and my group and I were stuck on how we were gonna get that. We couldn’t necessarily wait for its rain and hope for the best. So during class, as we were editing an amazing idea hit me on how we could create this shot. The best part was me and my group member came up with it at the same time. We were gonna use simple science and use a hose and flashlight or sun. One down 6 more to go.

 Another shot we have been struggling on was the dark blessed night and also people by shot. For us to match the lyrics we really need these shots. The dark blessed night was gonna be the hardest since there is no lightning and we do not know a lot about lights. I am going to film my dad or someone in a rocking chair at night looking at the sky. My fellow group member is going to attempt the same thing but use a fireplace as the lighting. The other shot will be taken by the group member with the camera. Since we need a steady shot of people walking by the camera can not move. I might go to the mall and get a portrait shot so it will blur the faces and try to record this shot. I think it's best that it will be recorded with the camera. I recently had an accident and jacked up my right pinky. I am hoping it will not affect the quality of the videos that I record.

filming blog MV

 For the second week of recording I was able to gain a lot of new shots. I didn’t have as much as last time but I got a decent amount. We needed flower shots that was the biggest goal.So the second I got the chance I was out and  about. We also need dark sacred nights. That’s another big one.Its really hard to get that kind of shot though. My group members are hard at work to try and get that shot. For the flower shots I needed to get the perfect lighting and angle. I decided to go to a park I went to last time,Harbor village park. The park had a good variety of flowers.

  So I just needed to find the right angles.To get to the park I rode my bike over.I spent over two hours waiting and recording multiple times.Just trying to get the wind to blow a certain way,make it not shaky,and etc. One of my biggest obstacles was the sun and clouds. I would find the perfect shot then a cloud would come around and mess it up.This was a main reason it took so long to record. Some of the shots I took were low angles and close ups. Occasionally I would have the wide shots and pan.I want to know if there are specific angles used to record nature and scenery shots.

  After I was done at the park it started to sunset. So I attempted to get the dark sacred night shot.It did not go over so well. The shots looked good in person,but when I got home to look them over, it was just black screen. I wasn't very happy about that. At home I went and watched all the videos I took. Then I sorted the videos and deleted the bad ones.Tomorrow I am going to dump all the footage and start piecing it together. Hopefully my group members will also have a good amount of videos as me or even more.  The main video we need to focus on getting is the dark sacred night.