Filming and Editing Blog: Reshooting and Transitions

It was now time for the final changes, edits, and shooting of my music video. The first thing I made sure to do was have all of my props, money, passport, flashlight, and bag ready to go at the beginning of the day. I also made sure that every thing in the set was exactly same as the time before so that there was no visible difference in the separate filming days. Then, I shot the necessary scenes that I needed for my music video that I either failed to film before or that were trashed all together. A difficulty I faced when filming again was the lighting outside in the final scene. Since the actor was laying down and the camera was looking straight down, it was hard to get a good shot with the correct lighting. The lighting would either be too dark, too bright, or uneven making the actor look disformed and give off a different aura than the one I wanted. Also, the weather changes influenced my filming days heavily. I had planned to film at night while being outside; however, the weather was not on my side for a couple of days since there was a lack of dryness and an incline in rain. After I got everything set up and shot the scenes needed, I placed them into the slots of the music video editing software. I began to trim, cut, and silent each shot and video I took again so that they would fit in perfectly. Once again I had to trim down the clips a tad bit more than what I wanted, but in the end, it worked out perfectly. However, I noticed that I had forgotten one scene that I needed to reshoot. Later that night, I filmed it again and replaced the bad scene in the editing software. I then filled in the proper transitions needed to show a progression in time and for a smooth lay over. These transitions were crucial for the music video seeing that the transitions are what tie the music video together by giving each scene a connection to the last. Also, seeing that the beginning of the music video is about how slow and boring life is, a dissolving transition was necessary to show a slow time progression. Finally, when everything was set in place, I reviewed the entire music video while checking off the rubric. I made sure to check off every box so that it would fit the requirements and guidelines. At the end, I achieved a time of 1 minute of music video film as instructed.