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Editng my Music Video

 As of right now, I've started editing my music video. I had a lot of issues trying to align the music and finding what part of the music I wanted to use. I knew I wanted to edit to the music, with the scene switching every time the lyrics changed. This was also a little hard because if I changed the music placement, I would have to redo all the clips that I edited to the music previously. Originally, in my storyboard, I had another scene planned where the actor would be cloud gazing with the camera. I ended up being unable to film it the same day as I filmed the rest of my clips since the sun had nearly completely set by the time we were done with everything else. The next day was very cloudy and rainy, so I didn't want to film either and instead started doing a rough editing job and just vaguely putting clips where I wanted them. During this stage, I realized that if I started the video when maye starts signing, the one-minute video will end at an awkward place in the middle of a lyric. To combat this, I added in some of the instrumental of the beginning. I had space allocated for this clip I was missing, but due to the time constraints, I felt that the storyline was getting too rushed. I decided to make some of the other clips longer to focus on them and work on getting the story across. I think it ended up conveying my message a lot better and getting the idea across. Not filming that last clip ended up being a blessing in disguise. Another thing I started to experiment with is some color correction in the video. I want the video to look rosy and loving, using warm tones and some added saturation. I looked at some Youtube videos to give me a vague understanding of the tools, and I could understand what some of the tools were from photo editing I have done. One of the cool things Premiere Pro has is that it automatically adjusts some of the settings to make the video look better. For most clips, I pressed the automatic editing button to see how Premiere thought my video clips could look better. From there, I would fiddle with each individual setting to look better to me. This also allowed me to create more of a contrast between the actor being lonely and sad and them being happy and excited when they were dressed the same.

On the right-hand side, you can see the color correcting settings I used for this particular clip.


Until next time, Danniella Miller signing off :)


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