Production Blog - The Final Step

     Today's editing session was the final stage of the music video. I immediately began with a shock/fear that I lost all my footage as my Google Drive had frozen and wouldn't load anything of what I had done the previous day before. I also couldn't find the Adobe Premiere Pro file so I had to use an older version I had emailed to my friend, who was also there with me. Once I had everything set up I began to get to work faster than before. I was now relatively caught up on how to use the program. I eventually caught back up to where I stopped the other day. So far the at-home scene was done and ready, but then I saw a huge mistake. In my fear of having too little film, we had a massive excess. So much that I couldn't use the entirety of the mall scene in the video. 

    I had let my teammates in on this and they took it as a good thing. I on the other hand considered this a miserable mistake, as the flow and tempo of the video were now completely thrown off. 

    I let on though and continued to try and edit the ending of the scene, which was all the TY park footage. Now I was planning on catching a sunrise to record for a transition, but I hadn't, so I simply figured recording the sun in a down-to-up manner would be good enough. The Starbucks scene was unnecessarily slow and gave the video a sense of snappy cutting and poor screen time management. I didn't enjoy how the actual video came out, but it was the best I was going to do with the footage I had. The next and final step was the audio. Now the audio was fairly easy and took just aligning the start of the song to the part of the video I had chosen for it to start. Now the only reason why this was tricky was a lack of audio from my computer, meaning I had to guess/estimate where the audio played in correspondence to the video. After that, all I took was to upload it to youtube send the URL to the rest of my teammates, and embed it into a new blog. Thank you for being with me throughout this journey of making a Music Video.