Editing for Music Video

After successfully completing all of the necessary scenes for our video we gathered our stuff to leave the beach. We all went to one of our group mates house to start the editing process. We started by deciding which video of each scene that we need. We then sent the chosen videos to my MacBook. The first thing I had to do was import all over the videos onto iMovie. I made sure they were in the chronological order so it would save us time. Next I added the song we chose. We decided to watch the film raw and uncut before we began to edit. As we watched the film we picked out videos that needed to be shortened. When we finished watching it I then began to shorten certain clips. 

Shortening our clips helped us with two purposes; fitting the time limit and making the videos match up with the song. After I completed this we rewatched the film to see if the clips made more sense. It did, so we moved on to the next task. With the music we had to start it at a certain time so it could add a special effect. We had to drag the music bar to a specific time. This required lots of precision. The next thing we had to do was add a freeze frame onto the last scene. This also required precision because we had to freeze the scene as soon as the beat dropped. It took us a while to align the freeze with the best but we eventually got it. After completing both of these steps we watched the video once more. 

The whole video had a perfect flow without any transitions so we didn’t feel it was necessary to  add any. We thought we were done, everything was perfect. However we came to a realization that our video was over the time limit. We had to then go back to watch every scene and decide what to cut out. This part was very difficult for us because we felt that every part was a necessity. After hard deliberation we knew what to do. We first cut out a scene completely. We then cropped two scenes at the end. And lastly we cut 3 seconds off of a scene in the beginning. This cut down our video to fit the time limit perfectly; the editing process was over.