Editing For The Music Video

For the most part our editing was easy. We ended up having most of the footage on our phones. This was done because we didn't end up filming with the school cameras. We thought we would have better quality videos on our phones. Another perk of this was not having to dump on school computers. This also saved us time because school computers take a long time to load. Our phone cameras were easy and allowed us to move quickly. A challenging part was being able to move all the footage to one central place. We had three different phones with all the footage. We gave the video to Alex, and this mostly worked.
We had a little challenge because my phone wouldn't transfer because the files were too large. I ended up having to go to his house to transfer it onto his computer. Once we had all the files on one central computer, we could start. We decided to stick with the story board theme. This meant we were all on board with our ideas. This led to a smooth process of fitting all the footage together. One issue we had was shot length. We didn't have bad shots, we didn't know how long to make them. This made the video look clumsy and not coherent. We had spent too much time talking over our options.
In the end, we ended up switching shots quicker than slower. We thought this would keep the viewer engaged for longer. We also decided to jump back to previous shots to show progression of the film. This also created another issue, finding the shots. We had so many shots stacking up to use, we lost track. This created un-needed stress of having to sift through bad video. Next time, we are going to keep better records of shots to be able to move affectionately through them.Another issue we had was the shots at the end. We had very similar closing shots, but we always found something wrong with one. We couldn't decide which one we wanted, so we had to go with the one we didn't like, but we had no choice. Overall, the process went well, we just had too much going on to really see what we wanted, but in the end, we were all satisfied with our videos.