Editing Music Video Blog

I started to edit my commercial. It is going pretty good. I have to finish this weekend though. I have all of the footage I need, now I just need to edit it. Like I have said in previous blogs. Editing should not be too hard because I have some prior experience. I got the first few scenes done today. But I know how I want my music video to go so it should not take much longer. Editing was also smoother with getting started. I hope it is like that the rest of the time.

There was some trouble starting. This is because the laptops were not working. They would not load the editing program. But when they did load there were only 30 minutes left of class. I was only able to complete a little bit because of this. I do not think that it will that easy to finish. But I will get it done. Then I have to insert the music. I had trouble with that when I was doing the commercial. But I was able to get it to work then.

I am pretty sure that we got enough footage. But it needs to be at least one minute and five seconds. I don't think that I undershot that mark though. But that is a decent amount of footage to edit. I don't know how long it will take. But hopefully, everything goes according to plan. That would make me very happy. But the editing process or what I have done has been good. As well as filming. It has all been a good experience.

Music Video Filming Blog #2

I haven't had time to finish filming since the first time. My group members and I haven't been able to find a time where we are all free. But we are planning to finish this week. It shouldn't take to long to finish. That is when we have the chance to finish. We have everything already planned out. Now it's just putting it all together. The filming process should not be a problem. But we still have to edit. That shouldn't be that hard since I have some experience already.

Editing will probably take a little longer this time. This is because there will be more footage. But there will be more footage because the music video needs to be at least one minute and five seconds. The footage is on one of my group member's phone. Now we need to put the footage onto a flash drive. Well, that is the plan at least. Then when I am at school, to put the footage onto the laptop. I didn't use one of the cameras provided because I forgot an SD card. That is the main reason I used a phone to film. Well, it's the only reason.

But the project should not take to much longer to finish. I know I have said that a bunch. The editing shouldn't take to long either. This is because I have a little bit of experience. But even though I do not have all the footage. I am going to start editing what I do have. This should definitely help. Especially when we have the rest of the footage. It will make editing then take a lot less time. Then after I edit, I just need to insert the music.

Music Video Filming Blog

Today I started filming my music video. It took a little bit to get started but once I did it went pretty well. I did not finish but got more than half done. I plan on finishing soon. By soon I mean during this long weekend I have coming up. Like I said I have about half left. But I got a little more than half done. I followed the storyboard for the most part. I don't remember making any changes. The filming went good overall.

Some of the scenes I did a bunch of retakes. Some of them I only had to do a few times. But I did take a decent amount of videos. When I go to finish I should have no problem finishing. Like I said I got most of it done. But I am the director, so I was filming. But there was one scene that I was in. There is one more scene that I am supposed to be in but I didn't get that far yet. Some scenes were more difficult than others. Some of them were easy to film.

I think that the rest of the scenes should be pretty easy. The only one that I think could cause me any trouble is the next one I have to do. It is probably the biggest scene in the whole music video. Well not probably. It is the biggest scene in the music video. After I film that scene, the rest should be pretty easy to film. This is because the ones after the main one are fairly simple. They should not take many takes. I should be able to get them on the first few tries. Overall, the first part of the filming went good.

Music Video Storyboard

Our Storyboard consists of what we want our music video it be. We want the main character to be getting bullied, then she comes back and teaches the bully a lesson. That is the overall concept for our music video.

The first scene is going to be an eye-level and medium-short shot. We will be in our normal clothes and no props. The setting is outside. There will be natural lighting

Second scene: High-shot, and the camera angles and everything is the same.

Third Scene: Pan shot and the same costumes and stuff. The lighting in this scene is also from the sun.

Fourth Scene: Low-shot, and the setting is now in the room. The lighting may be a little harder now.

Fifth Scene: Back to eye-level shot, no props really, and the lighting and costumes are still the same.

Sixth Scene- Eye-level, and mid-shot. Also setting and clothes the same.

Seventh Scene: Tracking-shot, and eye-level. It goes back to natural lighting but no costume changes. It is also now a natural setting.

Eighth Scene: Wide-shot, zoom-in. Setting and other stuff is still the same.

Ninth Scene: The angle would be from the waist up, but still, the setting and stuff is the same.

Tenth Scene: Eye-level and a medium shot. But lighting and setting still remains the same.

Eleventh Scene: Zoom and eye-level shot.

Twelfth Scene: Eye-level, mid-long shot.

Music Video Planning Blog

My group and I will be filming at someones house. Julia Maier's house to be exact. One of our friends will also be in the group. We chose to do this location because it would be the best for the music video. Also the setting is good for the type of song. There will be first aid kit at the location. There is also a pool and there be things just in case someone falls in. Also, going back to the location, we are going to try and set it up so it is like a school setting. For our safety, we will be really careful with what we do. This will be for the benefit of everyone.

We are going to use tables as desks. We are somewhat trying to simulate a classroom. We are also using paper and pencils like we are doing work in class. There are some other props that we might use but are not sure about. For example, we might use phones, computers, or things like that. Also, if there is a scene with pencils and paper, we will probably also use erasers. Also we might go outside and film. In that case we might use some outdoor chairs or something. Then if we do go outside we might not really use any props. But we will figure it out.

For costumes, we are going to be using our everyday clothes. This is because we are going to be simulating school. This means there is not any special uniforms or costumes we need. We already have all the dates for the things that are due. This Thursday, we have two blogs due. One of them is planning, the other is the storyboard. The final product is due December 9th of this year. The filming blogs are due towards the end of November. Also, we have to put the final music video on the teachers computer. If we follow everything, it should not be that difficult.

Intro to music video

The commercial project just ended, but it went well. I definitely learned a lot from it and will be able to use things I learned from it in the music video. Now I have to transition from about thirty seconds, which is what the commercial was, to about one minute and fifteen seconds which is about what the music video needs to be. The music video and commercial are very similar in some ways. But they are also different in some ways. I'm exited to start but also nervous that it will not be that good. The editing will definitely be better because we have more experience. 

The song my partner and I chose was Roar by Katy Perry. We chose this song because it is upbeat and fun. The genre is pop. We looked at some other pop songs to get some idea of what conventions and stuff like that. I also think that with how the song is, it will be easy to come up with a story for it. That will make the whole project much easier. It also helped that we were able to agree on a song so fast.

Conventions

Genre- The genre of roar is pop. Pop is generally upbeat and positive.

Camera Angles/Shots- Many of the shots are eye-level and mid-shot. Some angles are a low shot or high shot.

Sound- Pop uses lots of bass in its music. The music is often upbeat.

Editing- There are lots of jump cuts. There are also some cross cutting.

CLAMPS

Costumes- There aren't really that many costumes. A lot of what they call costumes are just normal clothes.

Lighting- There is a lot of soft lighting. But not much hard lighting.

Acting- The acting in pop is mostly simple and not stuff to complicated.

Makeup- The makeup is natural in the sense of that it is not clear that you are wearing makeup.For example, concealer and powder and stuff like that.

Props- Many pop videos do not have props, or at least a lot of props.

Setting- Pop takes place in normal everyday places a lot of the time. However, there are some with natural settings.

Final Commercial Blog

I finished editing the commercial and it came out pretty good. It is not perfect, but it came out better than I thought. Also, the editing was not as difficult as I expected it to be and it went well. When I first started to watch the footage I had, it was lagging a lot. But as time went on it lagged a lot less. There was also a lot of footage of nothing where the record button was pressed without it being realized. I had to get rid of all of that, which really helped with the lag actually. After that little bump in the road, you could say, everything was smooth sailing. I got a lot done yesterday, so I would say it was pretty successful. Hopefully, everything else is that has to happen goes that smooth.

All that is left is to add the music. Then make any finishing touches that are needed, then I am all done. But before I attach the music, I have to detach the audio. Hopefully, I remember how to do that but I am pretty sure I do. Then I might have some finishing touches to do. If so, they shouldn't be that hard to fix. I think I will get a good grade, but I definitely do not have the best commercial. I am still not sure what kind of music I will use. But I hope I have enough time to do everything. Tomorrow the classes are shorter so that's the only reason that I am worried.

But overall the whole project was good. The recording went better than I thought it would. Just like everything else. The commercial was not exactly like my storyboard. But I think I did a pretty good job of following it. The filming started off a little shaky but once I figured it out it was ok. Still not the best filming but it was not bad for it being the first time. Then there was some trouble on the second day of filming. This is because I got outside to start filming and then checked the camera and it was just about dead. But the project was very good overall and I liked it.

Editing the Commercial Blog

Today I supposed to start editing but the computers are not working. I also had to do more filming. Well acting, because I am not the director. But today I did have to film a little bit. I came to class feeling confident about the commercial, just to find out the computers are broken. I really do not even know what happened to the computers. I Just got to class and my teacher told us the computers are broken. I also don't know if we will be able to use the computers next class. But I was also able to get the footage onto the computer much easier than last time. All of my footage was also still there.

There was a little bit of difficulty in getting the footage onto my flash drive. But all the footage was transferred successfully. With the computers not working with the editing, I had a little bit of time at the end of class. I used that time to start this blog. I didn't get much done on it but I was at least able to start it. Hopefully, the computers are working the next class. Then I will be able to start editing my footage. If the computers are not working next class I don't know what I will do. Or we might have another assignment. But I can't really think of another assignment that we would have.

The filming of the final scenes was successful. It took a little more than half the class. But I gave myself enough time to get back to class and put my footage on the computer. Then onto the flash drive. Also, this time I knew how to use the tripod. This meant that when I tried putting the camera onto the tripod, I didn't have to ask someone for help. But there were a lot of people on the track. This made it hard to film. Then they kept getting in the way on purpose, which was very irritating. But I needed the footage so unfortunately, they were in some of the shots.

Filming Blog

Today we started actually filming our commercial. Or my partner started filming because I was acting the whole time. It took a little while to get started because we didn't know how to put the camera on the tripod. But we eventually figured it out with some help. But I was the actor. I did no filming. I did a couple shots where I was running and acting really tired. Well, actually we did that one a lot since I am a pretty bad actor. I got multiple Gatorade bottles so if I Messed up or something we had a backup. But nothing bad happened.

The filming went good, we got a lot of shots. Some of them were good and others were pretty bad. We got some shots of me drinking the Gatorade and zooming in on the Gatorade. There was also one scene where I had to flip the bottle. But every time I was not being filmed, I landed it, but when I was being filmed, I could not land it a single time. The track had a lot of people filming and it was hard to get shots in because we were sharing this one part of the track with another group. I got sweaty because I was running a lot and it was also very hot like always in South Florida. After filming we went back inside. This was the most difficult part because once we got back inside we had to dump our footage but it took a very long time to find a working computer. I mostly ran and nothing else, next class we are going to do the second part of our commercial.

There was some footage where it was recording and I did not even know. I drank a lot of Gatorade when we were filming. When I had to flip the bottle, I had to drink a little every time. This made it harder to flip it successful because the weight changed every time. We got a couple times of me doing it and it felt so good when I landed it successfully. Then we got a couple of me sprinting down the track. There were actually a decent amount of those. Then there were the ones where I had to act really tired like I had just run a marathon. Overall it was pretty good and we got some good shots. It was a good experience for me.

Storyboard Blog

Today we did our storyboard, which is where we pretty much planned what we are going to do in our commercial. Things like camera angles, what types of shots there will be, and the mise en scene. We also figured out what each scene will have in it. We planned to use multiple camera angles and shots. Those include pan shot, eye-level shot, and a crane shot. We also plan to use multiple camera angles, which include tracking shot, zoom out. All of our lighting is going to be natural lighting, which comes from the sun. We also planned what props that we are going to use and how. We will be filming our commercial on the track. We planned everything, now lets hope that the commercial goes according to plan.

Editing Lesson Blog

Today in class we learned how to edit on the computers using Pinnacle Studios. My teacher went over the procedures for checking out the camera and making a folder and how to use the camera and stuff. First, we need to fill out the camera check out sheet and then we can take a camera. Next, we film and and and learned how to put the footage on the computer and then on to Pinnacle Studios. We also learned how to use the camera, tripod, and the SD card reader and how to plug it into the computer. We also learned that we have to make a folder for the footage and we use that same folder for the finished product. The overall procedures were decently simple and should be easy to understand. I just need to follow the notes and I should have no problems. When we take a camera to film, we have to return it the next day even if we do not have her class the next day. Every time you rent the camera you have to fill out the sheet over again and it is one sheet per pair, trio, and group.

Now, for the actual editing, my teacher went over the basics of editing and how to do certain things. She thought us how to delete, do transitions, add music, and other things that will be important factors in making our commercial good. We also learned how to do a "dump in", which is when you put the footage of the computer. The camera bag has a USB in the bag for you to use that works with the camera. We were shown how to import stuff from the computer on to Pinnacle Studios. We pick pieces of footage that we want than import those. We learned that raw footage means untouched or un-edited. We learned about different transitions, including fades, wipes, dissolves, and many more. My teacher also briefly went over how to do voice-overs. There's whole bunch of steps to it but if we plan on doing it we will have help.

To put music on the commercial we have to go on YouTube. Then we have to convert the music we want to an MP3. We learned that the razorblade symbol means to cut. Then after we cut the unwanted part, we put that part into an orange box and click delete. To detach audio, we have to put the clip into an orange box and then click delete. To avoid the computers crashing, we have to let them load completely when we click something. Finally, we need to add a title. The way we would do that is by simply click on the T. Then it will allow us to add a title for out commercial. We also learned about exporting and that it needs to be a MPEG 4. Well, that's everything that we learned today.

Research Blog for Gatorade Commercial

This blog is about a Gatorade commercial that I have to do for Aice Media. In this blog I will talk about my plan for my commercial. This will also include the props, costumes, schedule, location, and back up plan. I plan to be done filming on October 21 which is the class period I will have to film. I will also have props and the list of props is below. Everything else relating to my plan will also be below. My commercial will be finished by the end of the month.

Props

• Plastic Gatorade Bottles (full) 
• Green Reusable Gatorade Bottle

We are going to drink from the bottles for the commercial promoting Gatorade.

Costumes

• Normal Clothes 

We are using normal clothes to show normal students drinking Gatorade and that it is the main subject of the commercial. 

Schedule

• Each day write new blog
• Each day is a new assignment for the actual commercial

Each day we write a new blog about what we did that day for our project.

Location

• All around the campus of Fort Lauderdale High School

We are going to be film for the commercial around different spots.

Back up plan

• Someone is not here
• It is raining

 If my partner is not here I am going to find someone else to help me film and if it is raining we will film the commercial under a covered area.

Research Blog

The normal conventions for a Gatorade commercial are athletes or people working out. The subjects of the commercial normally drink a bottle of Gatorade before winning the big game or after a huge workout in the gym. The majority of the commercials end with the slamming the bottle down on the table or taking a huge sip from the bottle. A lot of the commercials are endorsed by professional athletes including J.J. Watt, Dwyane Wade, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, and Katelyn Tuohy. The entirety of the commercials are action-packed. Gatorade endorses athletes from major sports.
Common lighting for the commercials is hard lighting on the athletes. Gatorade creates shadows on subjects. They often use natural lighting from the moon or the sun. The majority of the sound in the commercials is natural sound. Whether it’s the subjects breathing hard after a run or the alarm clock in the morning. Gatorade uses voice-overs or fast upbeat music.

Introductory

     Hello, my name is Kol and this is my first blog. I go to Fort Lauderdale High School as a freshman. I have eight classes, which are Geometry, Biology, Aice English General Paper, French 1, Aice Media, Journalism, World History, and everybody's favorite, Study Hall. I am still adjusting to high school because it is nothing like middle school. It is much more work than in middle school, but I have met a lot of new people which is good.
     Outside of school, here are many things I like to do. Those things consist of soccer, read, play video games, and listening to music (especially when I am doing homework). I do a lot of soccer but I am currently out with a calf tear, slight one but still our for four-six weeks. I have a lot more time on my hands to other things that I enjoy. With that time I just finished the book I had been reading and I had been reading this book for a while. I just never had time to finish with soccer and school, but since I am currently taking a break from soccer I finished the book within a week. Things I do not like is a different story. I do not like homework and nothing else really comes to mind. But homework is really high my list of dislikes, or whatever my dislikes are. In that case, it counts for multiple dislikes.
     Well, that is most of the stuff you need to know about me. There is nothing super special about me as you can see but you might think differently. I also forgot to mention that I really do not like spiders. They are my biggest fear, so I guess that's another dislike of mine. Now I'm pretty sure that's everything about me.