Editing Blog: 1 minute Dilemma

 Ever since I finished filming, I couldn't wait to start editing my music video. Many ideas ran across my mind about how I should go about this process. Most of my focus was towards what edits can I possibly incorporate into my project that would make it entertaining. This consisted of transitions, filters, effects, and more.

To start off, my first move was to position each scene in order to see what it would look like at it's base form. Upon further review I noticed that the video was about a minute and 25 seconds long. In all honesty, I didn't expect it to go that far beyond the time limit, but never the less, I had to fix this problem immediately before I could include anything else. So, after rewatching my video over and over again, I made small cuts throughout each scene. Majority of these cuts were shots that weren't meant to be included. However, other smaller shots were discarded from the project because they made the scene unnecessarily long. Soon enough, I brought the music video down to 59 seconds, to which at this point I began more creative editing. Depending on the scene that took place beforehand and the one right after, I chose the best transition to avoid choppiness. For example, while the intro consisted of dissolve transitions, certain scenes had a fade transition, like when the main character falls asleep. Moreover, all of my effects such as the thought bubble messages and the visible texts were deliberately made by me. This process was time consuming but all I really needed was a good green screen background and photoshop to create my own messages for the characters thoughts.