Editing Blog: Music Video

I chose to edit my project with the footage I complied during my trip but with a different song. After reviewing the scenes I had, and listening to the song I chose, I realized that while I could combine the two, that there was a better song I hadn't considered before. After some deliberation, I switched my song from Paper Planes By M.I.A to Hey, Soul Sister by Train. This song classifies as pop rock and has a more soulful, slow melody and lyric. The use of instruments and the rhythm have some country influences and the whole song is upbeat and methodical. The whole song really brings an image of adventure and happiness. For this project, I wanted to display my perspective to the best of my ability while still matching the meaning and mood of the song. I included a lot of short clips to create a 'reel' of memories to tell the story of the journey and create movement. Choosing to do this allowed me to avoid the tiring and endless process of aligning scene and smoothing out the cuts. Instead, I could use them to build the effect I wanted to create with this commercial. I did have to cut a lot of scenes down from 20 to 30 second to get the memory playback theme I wanted. Most of my footage was shortened to create the effect I wanted and also to stay in time. It was honestly harder to limit myself to one minute mark then it was to reach the one minute mark. There was some footage that I didn't use at all that I would have loved to included. When I was editing, I chose to included a filter on the footage in order to brighten the colors to match the song's mood. This really helped blend the content and audio as well as build the 'memory reel' effect I was going for. For the song, I choose to use the last-minute of Hey, Soul Sister as the audio for the music video. I felt that it contained the smoothest starting mark and the ending mark I could get. I really do like the whole song and any part of the song could have fit the footage I shot. I am glad I choose to switch to Hey, Soul Sister and I love how the video turned out.

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