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 Upon further inspection, our footage wasn’t as bad as I described. We had a lot of salvageable shots. As a result, we are going to keep the footage we have already taken. However, we are going to go back to the park to take some simple shots to make the beginning less choppy. Thankfully, we won’t have to pay to be in the area of the park we have to film this at. 

Plans to reshoot went well. We got the basic shots we needed to fill out certain spots in the video. Now, it’s time to edit. We choose to split up the work between us. This was to ensure that each of us had a say in the vision for the video. Splitting the work also alleviates the burden of editing it all by one’s self.  Unfortunately, the equipment I was using didn’t allow me to work with computer software to edit the video. The laptop I had was broken and unreliable, so I went back to the editing software I used in the previous project.

I started by putting all the takes we took in a big project and muting each clip. Then I watched the whole thing, cutting awkward and unnecessary moments. I then rearranged the clips to tell the story we wanted to tell. 

With the clips in the proper order, it was much easier to see simple mistakes that made the video choppy or confusing. I also ran into a major issue - the video was way over the time limit we had for the the assignment. After coming to this conclusion, I discussed with my group what options we had to fix this. We had to sacrifice a lot of different scenes to get the time down, and it was not an easy decision. 

A short deliberation period lead to the music video being within the limits of our assignment. I then used the overlay feature of the program to add the song to the video. Once the song was put on the video, I could play around with fading the scenes into each other and things of that nature. I decided to keep the video simple, with a fade out at the end.






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