Music Video Editing Blog

    Just getting back from break. The class completed the filming process as did I during the break. Now it’s time to move into the editing process but we have a lot less time to do it. We have a total of 2 classes. Which is a set back because I need lots of time to edit. Most of my video comes to flourish from editing and making it fit perfect. A big problem I ran into was that on the first day of editing my entire editing time was wasted. I was trying to import all my footage into the editing software but it kept giving issues. It would connect to the reader and as it was downloading it'd stop and say it lost connection. I even reached out to help from others but it didn’t work. In all I only got a few of the videos and film I needed. However I just dealt with it and moved forward with what I had.

    Moving past the problem I now only had one day to do the best with what I had. I had most of the necessary shots and all the general things like a shot of a takedown or an escape. Though it was the exact ones I wanted but still good enough. The song for the video had a change I decided to change it to the Jungle by the Reason ep. I decided it because the last song didn’t really match the energy of the video. I used a YouTube to mp3 converter to use the song. I didn’t have all the warm up shots I had half but I made up for it but doubling up on the takedown shots. I incorporated some slow- motion effects on a few of the takedowns in the shots. I used blackouts transitioning from the warm up to wrestling takedowns. I also had a shot of a one on one with the actor to change up the dynamic also used a blackout for the transition. I tried to time big moments in the footage with main verses in the music. After the half point of the video I started changing transitions to fades. Also I put in another one on one dynamic with the actor. I was also thinking of inserting a piece of spoken word at the end as like a closing title but it didn’t really work well with the video. I decided to drop the idea and try to keep everything with the same theme. In all I think it came out good