AICE Media Studies

This is my CCR. Enjoy!

I had lots of fun filming this music video with my groupmates. I am very pleased with how the project turned out, and am glad to say I crushed my goal of wanting the next project to be better. I can say without a doubt this project is much better than the first one my group and I made. Enjoy our music video! 

 Overall, this project is coming to an end, and my thoughts on it are definitely not a straight shot. The music video was slightly easier to produce compared to the commercial, for a number of reasons. For one, the commercial all took place in one setting, and while this was a benefit, it came with its cons. The commercial was filmed at the beach, so the sun was glaring into the camera and the beach was packed. Not wanting to have unwanted people in the shot, we would constantly have to wait for them to pass by so that the filming could progress. For the music video, we had a similar problem, since everywhere we went it was crowded. In the end though, the crowdedness proved to be useful for us, as it made the scenes look more authentic. The music video was also a little bit harder to film since there was so many different settings/locations that we needed to go to. All the locations were a good distance apart too, like the movie theatre, the ice cream parlor, the beach, and walking...

 After all of the color grading was done, it was time to move onto the second part of the editing process. I filmed on a Nikon camera, which meant I needed to transfer the video clips from the SD card to the computer. I did this by putting the SD card into the adapter and connecting to Carson's computer, where the color grading was done, as mentioned in the past blog. Since the color grading and visuals for the video were done, it was time to move onto the part where the clips were shortened and framed accordingly. For this process, my group and I collectively decided to use the software CapCut, since it was a free video editor and provided all of the tools we would need to finish our project. Here, I imported the clips from the file groups that my group and I had made earlier, and made sure they were all in the right order. Once it was established that everything was in the right order, I then focused on each individual scene. I had to shorten most of the clips, as there was unnec...