Time to put the scenes together!



It's been around a week since I've finished recording most of the necessary scenes needed for the music video. I would have to go camping in the weekend before the due date so I need to work hard and finish this video early. I've worked hard to get my other assignments be done in time so that I could be able to go with my family to the camp.

The program I used for editing for the project is the same as my last project, Shotcut. Shotcut is one of my most used apps for me because it is the program that I mostly used to edit a lot of my videos. Before editing anything at all, I first must import my video files into my computer files. Once I was able to move all the video clips to my laptop, I then started the new file in Shotcut in which I would start off by adding the first scenes in the music videos.

I had to look online for the beginning scenes because there were many templates of time-lapse videos of clocks and cars through the city. Once I had downloaded these, I then put them on the video track and shortened their length to fit the music video. I then started to get the video clips recorded of the actually music video, starting off by adding the real, first scene. I had to cut off many of the length due to some parts having filler and not being of any importance. Afterwards, I added the next scene, cutting all the filler like the first part but also adding a mute to the audio track so that noises wouldn't be picked up. The next scene was a normal and so I just had to put it in along with the others, but the one after this is more interesting in terms of editing. For this scene, It would be a scene about a past time, so to show this, I would change the effect of the video by changing the color to an original color that represented the past (example would be something like black and white). The following scenes are then ones that were taken from the fair, which were the very first scenes recorded back in Thanksgiving break. I had given my friend the camera to record these scenes but they came out as a vertical view in which really messed up the aspect ratio of the music video. So I was forced to cope and just deal with it, cutting off some of the filler such as messing up the take but then re-doing them. The scene following that would be the entrance to the Ferris wheel, in which I would just need to mute the clip and would be alright then. The scene in which I were to be in the Ferris wheel ride would then also need two important edits to it, one which was lighting to make it viewable and two, the "past" edit in which I changed the color of the video to represent past times. This was where I then stopped editing and toke a break by sleeping for a bit.

Once more, thanks for sticking by!

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