We finished working on our commercial projects. I emailed mine to my teacher. Now, we're starting a new project. It's a Music Video project. We have to choose a song to use, and form a story and use. I will be filming at TY park, as well as in my house and in one of our parents' cars. These are good locations because I will be able to film even in case of bad weather, and they are all close to our houses. This will be helpful because it'll make it easier to travel back and forth if needed.
For my music video I chose the song Memories, by Maroon 5. The plot will revolve around a subject (played by my friend Jaya), drinking (we will not be using alcohol, just red solo cups filled with water) with a group friends. One spot is empty, and through flashbacks one of her old friends (played by another friend, Isabella) will be introduced. It will be a mix of sadness and missing her old friend, and happiness because she has many fond memories of her.
My songs genre is modern pop. There are many different possibilities in terms of conventions and standards, including bright colors, heavy lighting, lots of make up and fashion accessories, tints and filters to boost colors, photo-shopped artists so they look perfect, many close ups of artists faces, and long shots of dancing/partying scenes. (Conventions of a Pop Music Video, SlideShare)
1.Costumes: The costumes used will just be casual outfits; e.g., shirts, hoodies, and jeans.
2.Lighting: The lighting will all be either natural or from overhead lights, depending on the scene. The scenes around the table will be dimly lit, so as to give a slightly depressed/down mood. The other scenes will be in black and white or a filter like sepia, to give flashback vibes. They will bright and happy in the cheerful ones, and slightly darker in the less optimistic memories.
3.Actors: The actors I will be using are my friends, Jaya and Isabella, for the majority, as the plot centers around them. For some scenes, I may ask my siblings to act as extras if I need them to.
4.Music: Only the song will be playing, the video itself will have no sound.
5.Props: The props we will be using are chairs, a table, a car, homework (papers), pens/pencils, phones, and red solo cups.
6.Setting: At my dining table, and various locations for flashbacks.
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 5, 2019
Commercial Editing Blog
Today we planned to start editing our commercials again. Luckily, we actually could this time. Since our editing software on the desktop computers hasn't been working, we had to wait until it had been downloaded on the laptops. They had been finished, and we got to get them today. So, today was our first day of editing our commercial projects. I wasn't sure at first whether I would have enough time to finish or not. Our teacher told us that we need to be done by the end of class on Thursday, which happens to be a PSD. PSD's are very short, so I was nervous over how much time I'd need to finish editing. Fortunately, I finished almost the entire thing in class today, so I'm feeling much more prepared for turning it in.
The first laptop I had didn't work. It said it was loading, but after ten minutes I decided it would be faster to just get a different one. After I had a working computer, it was much easier to turn on and log in. I plugged in my flash drive and made sure it was working. Opening Pinnacle Studios was way more difficult for me than it probably should have been. Every time I tried to click on it to open, it would seem like it was just loading but then nothing would come up. Eventually, I managed to do it right. I could finally start importing my footage. I clicked on Import, then on the name of my flash drive. From there, I just had to upload the file ("Com") that contained all of my footage.
Beginning the actual editing process was frustrating. I kept accidentally editing the footage pieces themselves, rather than what was in the track already. That lead to confusion on my part as to whether it was actually working or not. Once I realized that that was why the footage wasn’t changing as I rewatched it, it was easy to fix. I just deleted the clips on the track that I had meant to edit. Then, I replaced them with the full clips, which were already edited. There was one part that I found a little bit tricky when editing. There is a scene in my commercial where the subject is walking down the hall, and the next shot is of him standing closer to the camera. I wanted to use one piece of audio to go over the two different shots, which at first I didn't know how to do. How I ended up completing it was by editing the first shot so that it ended right before the part in the audio that I wanted over the first shot. Then, I cut the second shot to only be as long as the audio I was putting over it. Finally, I muted the second one put the entirety of the first one into the third track, so that the audio would play from the beginning of one to the end of the other, uninterrupted.
Beginning the actual editing process was frustrating. I kept accidentally editing the footage pieces themselves, rather than what was in the track already. That lead to confusion on my part as to whether it was actually working or not. Once I realized that that was why the footage wasn’t changing as I rewatched it, it was easy to fix. I just deleted the clips on the track that I had meant to edit. Then, I replaced them with the full clips, which were already edited. There was one part that I found a little bit tricky when editing. There is a scene in my commercial where the subject is walking down the hall, and the next shot is of him standing closer to the camera. I wanted to use one piece of audio to go over the two different shots, which at first I didn't know how to do. How I ended up completing it was by editing the first shot so that it ended right before the part in the audio that I wanted over the first shot. Then, I cut the second shot to only be as long as the audio I was putting over it. Finally, I muted the second one put the entirety of the first one into the third track, so that the audio would play from the beginning of one to the end of the other, uninterrupted.
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