Production Blog: Putting Our Film Together - Music Video

Hello everyone, once again, I am finally starting the part that to me is most exciting. I am starting with my group the editing process, putting all the pieces of film together. Since I was done filming, I decided to coordinate with my group when we can collectively start editing. I texted my group members on when they could edit the film. I didn’t know if they wanted to meet up in person to do this or call. To fit in everybody's schedule, I suggested that we call instead of meeting up in person so it can be more flexible. My group members responded by saying they can call at night at around seven thirty. Most of my group members were able to call even earlier such as five in the afternoon. However, I had swim practice from five to seven in the evening, therefore they made the set time to edit to seven thirty. When the time came, I joined a call that was created by my other group members to start discussing how my group is going to edit the film. I used the application FaceTime through my cellphone to communicate online with my group members. This application was useful for communicating with my group since it has a unique feature. This application allows you to share your screen with other members in the call. So, when I was in the call with my group members, I had some of the scenes I filmed on my phone, while one of my other group members had most of the other scenes. This led to the decision that the person that should be sharing their screen to the other group members should be the group member who already had most scenes on their phone, which was the other group member. I then messaged my other group member the rest of the scenes I had from my phone. We used the application CapCut for our editing. This is my second time using the editing software CapCut, and I felt experienced enough to assist my group members and help navigate them through some parts of the application. While I was editing with my group, there were some problems that I faced when editing. One being that some clips weren’t long enough as I thought they were going to be for our film. Another being that some of the clips weren’t synchronizing with the music as I thought they would. Luckily, I was able to resolve these problems with my group throughout the editing process. After a couple hours of putting all the scenes together that I filmed with my group, me and my group were finally happy with the final product that we collectively put together. I am super excited to show you the final product of our music video film.