On the Nice List

 Upon further inspection, our footage wasn’t as bad as described.There were several shots that could be saved. We will thus keep the video we have previously captured. We're going to return to the park, though, to make the beginning less choppy by taking a few simple shots Thankfully, we won't have to pay a fee to enter the park's area where we will be filming.

Plans to reshoot went well.We were able to complete several sections of the video with the basic shots we required. It's time to edit now. We decide to distribute the task among ourselves. This was done to make sure that everyone had a say in the direction the video should take. Additionally, dividing the task makes it easier to edit it all at once. Unfortunately, Victoria was unable to edit the movie using computer software because of the equipment she was using. She ended up using the editing program she had previously used for the project because the laptop she had was faulty and unstable. Since my computer worked a little better i just used the program she was initially going to use.

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. Victoria and Aidan did the same thing. We wanted to make it as fluid as possible.

With the clips in the proper order, it was much easier to see simple mistakes that made the video choppy or confusing. The video was far longer than the allotted time for the project, which was another major problem we encountered. After reaching this decision, I talked with my group about the solutions we may use to remedy the situation. It was not an easy choice, but we had to cut a lot of different scenes in order to shorten the running time.

A short deliberation period leads to the music video being within the limits of our assignment.The song was then added to the video using the program's overlay capability. I could experiment with fading the scenes into one another and other such things once the song had been included to the video. With a fade-out at the end, I chose to make the video straightforward.