Editing Blog

     The first day of editing was stressful. Bianca got the laptop for us. We got the SD reader and got the SD card. We dumped all the footage onto our laptop. We checked over all the clips. Then we realized that one of our scenes wasn’t there. I was confused because I thought we recorded all of it. We started to stress out because we only had one more day to edit. We started to think what we could do to fix it. I thought about just closing up to a picture of a radio.
     We couldn’t do that because then it wouldn’t match up to the rest of the video. It would look weird if we did that. We decided that we were going to reshoot. Bianca texted her friend to reshoot with us the next day. We waited for an answer. I texted my friend to come with us to reshoot the scene. Bianca texted her other friend that was in the video if she could reshoot. Her friend didn’t answer, so we had to do it without her. My friend said that she could come with us to reshoot. The scene we had to reshoot was at the park.
     If thought we didn’t have the footage we had to start editing. We edited all the other scenes together and we just needed to get the scene we missed. The next day that we had to reshoot, we all had lacrosse practice. We didn’t want to miss it, so we were going to leave practice early. We left practice and did the reshoot. Today was the second day we had to edit. We got the scenes and started to edit all of it together. We added the music, but we had to ask one of our peers for help with it. We finally added and cut the music. Bianca was trying to move the scenes to Track 2, but couldn’t because the music was going with it. I saw that she was getting stressed out. I offered her my help and she gave me the laptop to do it. I moved the music and scenes to their right Tracks. We didn’t finish editing, the video was shorter than the song. We have to do it next class and finish it.

Filming Blog

     Bianca and I planned on filming on Tuesday and Friday. On Tuesday we walked from school to the park with our friends. Our friends were going to be the backup dancers. We got to the park and set up by the area with the tables. We put our bags down and set up the camera and tripod. We took out the story board to see what we had to film. We asked our friends if they could come with us to the beach to film. They said that they couldn’t because they were busy. Bianca and I realized that we wouldn’t have anybody for the beach scenes. We were stressed out and trying to come up with a plan on what to do. One of my friends suggested that we do the music video with Barbie’s. We considered it, but then we saw that we would have to buy the dolls and all of the stuff.

     We realized that it was too much money. We were stressing out on what to do. We wasted about 30 minutes trying to figure something out. We decided to not do the scenes at the beach and just do it at the park. We had to hurry because we were all leaving at 4:30. For our first scene we needed a car, but we didn’t have one. Bianca tried to figure something out. We ended up cutting out the car scene. We started to film the first part. I came up with the idea of maybe using paper balls, so that the backup dancers could through them at each other to show that they were having fun. We filmed that part with the paper balls and then did the part with the radio.

     Since we couldn’t do the scenes at the beach we decided to go to the part of the park where there were trees. We told our friends to act like the were playing around and throwing paper balls at each other. We had the main singer do her part of the beach scenes, but instead do it by the trees. We saw that the camera was running out of battery. We didn’t have anywhere to charge it. We were on a time limit, so we had to work quickly. We had the backup dancers go into a circle and pretend to be gossiping about the main singers shoes. Then we did a shot where it went from the main singer to the backup dancers shoes. We had to film the last scene quickly because the battery was dying. We finished everything on time.