New Project: Music Video

After a week of shooting our commercial and editing the entire commercial, we were finally done with our commercial. Although, the commercial was not the best, however, it was quite amazing as we had limited time and it was all of our first time creating such commercial. From, using the camera to take scenes from the best desired angles of each scene, we took many takes as we wanted to use the best shots. With only a hour time limit for filming, we had to act quickly and we were successful for the filming at the end. Now back into the classroom, we had difficulties editing the video as the computer was very slow and sometimes not opening the raw footages. After multiple attempts, we were finally able to start editing properly and we cut out any scenes we didn’t want to include. We also added transitions between scenes and background music to make the commercial more professional. Overall, my entire group did a great job working together and creating a amazing commercial even though we encountered many difficulties especially in the editing process. I am definitely looking forward to working with them again in this new music video project because as a whole, we are able to efficiently create a great product under certain circumstances

Today my group is figuring out a song to do. We have contemplated a few different ones and I think we’re just going to stick with a song from the early 2000s to the recent years. We don’t wanna do an older song from the 80s and below because I feel like it would be too hard to replicate clothing that was worn in that era. The song we’re using is called “Young, dumb and broke”. This is sung be someone named Khalid Robinson. He was born on February 11th, 1998. His debut album ‘American Teen’ was released on March 3,2017. It ended up to number 9 on the U.S. charts. We chose this song because were all in high school so we can relate to the song 100%. We’re all young cause we’re only 16 or 17. We’re dumb because kids always make mistakes and we’re broke because well, I don’t think I need to explain that one.

1. The costumes we will be using are just normal everyday attire for the average teen. We want to try and make the clothing as related to the song as possible. So wearing fancy clothing would contradict the whole video. Average clothing consists on hoodies, redshirts, shorts & jeans.
2. We will be using natural light from wherever we film. We don’t be bringing in any special lighting because the music video is supposed to be fairly average.
3. Our actors will be the three people in thw group. We might add some extra people depending on what the scene is. We want to create that sense of socialization in the video.
4. Makeup will not be anything crazy whatsoever. Whoever wears makeup if any will be natural because we want the audience to be able to relate to it.
5. Some props that we will be using is for sure a car and money. We’re not sure what other props we will be using right now but we know it won’t be any that doesn’t relate to the song or high school students. We might use food as well just to show that we’re having a good time.
6. We’re going to have various settings in the music video because we don’t want to keep filming at the same place due to the worry that it will get boring. We wanna show that teens are always on the move and having fun.

For sound we will be using the music video and Pinnacle Studios for the entire editing process.