editing blog

Right after we finished taking our footage from our first day of filming we went over our footage and chose our best clips and put them in a different folder. Then before anything else i first shared all of our footage to one of group members. She’s in charge of editing and everything to do with editing the music video. We gave her some ideas of what we had in mind to do and what we wanted for the music video. She then explained a little bit what she was going to do and she began editing, i helped her a little and watched over and gave some pointers to what she was doing and she gave us some more ideas that would improve our music video. We went to youtube and transferred the song  to .mp4 using a music downloading website. After it downloaded we looked up glitch background for the intro of the music video. Once we found the one we liked, we started looking for glitch sounds, which I already had some sounds in my files. We then used Final Cut Pro X to make the intro, we added the glitch GIF and sound effect we then added the song title and the artist name. We exported it and opened After Effects to add the intro. We made a new composition, and a black background for we could add our videos. Since the song is retro I thought it’d be smart to add vhs and grain to our clips. Once we made sure the intro came out well we added the song as well as all the clips we filmed. We browsed for effects and presets that match the vibe of the song, and finally found the one that we all liked. At first we tried adding transitions to the clips but it didn’t look as well as we thought it'd look but we ended up just leaving it plain. We added the lyrics at the bottom so it’d look a little more complex and artistic. I played around with a plug-in called Magic Bullet Looks and made a coloring that we all liked on the video clips, as well as adding sapphire “tint”. We then added Twixtor/Time remapping to our clips to make them slower and longer. We then added a glowing effect to match each beat of the song and edited the graphs.