Editing Blog: So Many Clips!

     Today my group and I took our first steps towards editing our music video. I went through all of the shots we took and choose which ones were the best. There was a lot of shots so this took a good bit of time. I had some help from my group mates, Roscoe and Elijah but this was really a one person job. Next Roscoe put all of the clips into iMovie, the editing software we will be using to create our project. Roscoe did not cut anything, he just put all the videos in order and added the dissolve transition to all of them. This helped so we could see our time and what we need to remove, add or change. This leads into our next part. Roscoe and I went through the shots and chose which shots should be filmed again or even completely removed. Our time with all of the shots together came out to be about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This is ideal because that gives us room to cut and take out some shots. When Roscoe and I were evaluating our shots we discovered a few imperfections. One example was a scene of a cell phone ringing. We made this shot way to short so we will need to retake it. Another example is a tracking shot of the main character walking. This shot was very shaky and will need to be filmed again. The only other main issue was that there were too many shots of the lead just walking and not doing anything else. Once we reshoot we will be able to see what time our movie is at and cut however much we need to. This will not only give us the perfect time but it will make our opening two minutes more interesting. Altogether, today was very productive and this Friday we plan to dive into our editing by adding our titles and cutting our clips. Attached is an image of Roscoe deleting an unwanted shot.