It's Been a Marathon, But We Made It!

 Today, Friday in class, was our last day working on this project, We made finishing touches and had a lot we had to sort out, but everything worked out so well in the end. As stated in the last editing blog, everything was done on Jordyn's laptop using the ClipChamp program. It made everything easier to keep track of. We followed a pattern of filming, cleaning up our clips, scheduling another day for filming, then finalizing our product. This method worked well for me and my team. Something to be touched up was the audio, I clipped the audio and helped my team line up our clips. The first draft of the final product had many scenes that ran long, so trimming everything first made the most sense. We continuously adjusted clips and replayed, each of us giving our ow critique as to what should be done, and example was the scene where I walked in as a waitress. It's tedious to do, but getting things on-beat leaves for a better viewing experience for us and the audience in the end. I noticed a lot of our transitions were off, so I assisted my teammate in which clips we should shorten. The action match cuts had to be perfect, and doing things this way assured we would have just that! Additionally, we added diegetic sound to enhance some of the sound in our video, including text tone sounds and ringing diner bells, we also muted all of our clips. These sound effects were added using youtube to mp3 websites. I helped my teammate figure out the program, as I had done a job similar to this for our first AICE Media project. A problem we had was some scenes moving far too quickly, we weren't in for a easy fix for this one though. Whenever we slowed things down, the clips looked silly and didn't match the momentum of the rest of the video. Furthermore, increasing the speed did not improve the clips, it did the exact opposite, making the text messages more difficult to read. Some scenes in our video could be reshot or replaced easily because we did so many takes, so we redid them throughout our product as needed. A scene of texting was replaced for sure. The clips with the phone screen shown are not as easy to read as I would have liked. We fixed this by adding closeup screenshots to the side of the screen so the viewer could easily read any and all messages. The issue was adjusted, however, to make it appear as appealing as possible. We also made things easier to read in some places by selectively blurring some parts with the DaVinci Resolve 17 program. I found it to be tedious at times, but my group pushed us all to do our best, and we definitely did. In fact, I adjusted lighting and exposure for the entirety of the video to make it flow smoother and look more pleasing to the eye. Surprisingly, the title intro is my favorite part of the music video. I think the font we chose is the perfect choice for Saturday Nights, and it makes me even more proud of our product when I think about the dedicated collaboration that went into it. Rewatching it, I'm very much excited to present this to others, I hope to do more in the future with this type of software.