Editing blog (music video)

After shooting the clips for our music video, we sent all the footage to our group member Arisondez to edit because he was the only one out of all of us to that had an editing software. When he said he was nearly completed with editing the whole video, Marckins told him to bring the footage of the edited to show it us to see if we would be satisfied. Arisondez first had to edit the song that we chose onto the video so that it could sync with the video. He then showed us a clip on when we recorded a part of the song during night time and used an edit to capture the sun to then switch it over to daytime. Every time in the video it was time to switch roles so each member could say their part, he used an edit to introduce us so we could go along our part. Arisondez also had to down play the quality of the video because it was shot in 4k and needed to be dropped to 1080 p so he could properly edit it on his computer. He also added a black background with the title of the song and our names on it to then transition into the video, which a very clean effect.

After looking at the whole music video; and finding we had extra time to edit the video, we all came up with ideas to make our video look better. Marckins and I came up with the idea to add aglow to our bodies which we detail us more. We also decided to let Arisondez fix the transition edits because they were a little choppy. He also wanted to re-sync the song in the video so that it can look better with the way we were rapping it.  After all these decisions, we agreed to everything and decided to let Arisondez do his job.

All in all, our music video will eventually come along very well and hope it will give us a grade that we are hoping for. My group and I put a lot of hard work in and we can't wait to see the results of our final project.   

Filming process (Music video)

During the filming process for our music video, we took simple procedures to get the filming done as soon as possible. Since Mr. Katz gave us the go ahead on using our phone to record the video, we planned to film once everybody was on board with the plan. On the first day of filming, only Marckins and I were available to film our parts that day. Arisondez had difficulty with transportation to our location so he couldn't get there until later that day. Marckins and I decided to just start filming our parts with the lighting that we had. After taking some shots of Marckins part, Arisondez comes later on by night time. Since it was already dark and we didn't that much filming done anyways, we decided to group up at the same location to shoot the music video.

The next day, Marckins came to the same location by my house to start filming again. Since it was daytime and there was a lot of sunlight present, which corresponds with the song "Under the Sun", we decided it would be a perfect time to start filming. I recorded some takes of Marckins saying his lines of the song and after recording we decided to choose the best version of the ones we shot. Later on, Arisondez arrived at our location so we could shoot each of our parts and finish the music video all together. Since me and Arisondez had the same phone, we decided to shoot the rest off of his because he would be the one doing the editing of the video. After we shot my part of the song, we went on to shoot Arisondez's part. It took a few takes to shoot Arisondez part because he did not remember most of his lines. The last part was shooting my part which was the part of the hook of the song. Once we were done with all the recordings, we sent all the videos to Arisondez so he could go home and edit the video on his computer.

Shooting this music video was a very fun and intriguing experience. I'm glad to have group members such as Marckins and Arisondez and the hard work that we all did.