Production Blog; further editing

Today, my group and I got together to do some further editing. At home, I was able to open up the project but it would not let me properly edit. So, my members and I decided to group together to work on it on a single computer. The audio being used had to be temporarily taken out because it couldn't be heard. After taking the audio out, the unfinished video could be seen for us to properly edit. 

When my group and I were able to start, we decided to go over the video to refresh our memory on what work needed to be done. The music video so far was only one minute and twenty-eight seconds but it had to be one minute and fifteen seconds. One of the scenes had to be cut out completely which shortened the video by four seconds. We had to cut out another scene as well because it felt as if it was redundant. With the scene cut out, it helped the video flow more smoothly because it fit like a transition. 

One of the scenes that had to be cut was one that had Madelyn sitting alone near a fence. It was decided that this one would be taken out because it took up time. The scene prior to and after the deleted scene was able to indicate that she was sitting alone even without the redundant scene. The scene where both Kennedy and I went to help Madelyn was shortened at the end as well. This helped the flow of the transitioning between scenes better because it made it seem like everyone was walking from one place to another instead of a blocky cut-off. 

The last scene had to be shortened, too. It can be seen that I was heading toward the camera which ruined the way we wanted the scene to look. I also took out the close-up shot of everyone waving at the camera. It displayed some sort of "breaking-the-fourth-wall" feeling which isn't what my group and I wanted. With these cutting out scenes and shortening certain scenes, the music video was able to stay within the time limit with one minute and fourteen seconds in length.