Challenges of Filming and Editing for my Music Video

After planning my whole music video, and then developing a course of action to make this music video a reality, I have to film and edit my music video. Before I even started filming I ran into some issues, like how I needed to find someone to film with me since I was completing this project on my own. Since I decided to film this during my Thanksgiving break, a lot of people were out of town visiting their family. We are also currently in a pandemic, therefore a lot of people want to stay as safe as possible, which means a lot of people have to stay home and can't go outside. However, I called all of my peers to see if any of them were able to film. Thankfully, one of my friends were able to leave their house and let me film them for my music video. After that issue was solved I ran into another issue while I was filming my music video, which made me use my problem solving skills. The first problem was that we were on a time crunch since we had that day to film, or else we would have to wait until the end of the week to film anything again. This was because I decided to film during my Thanksgiving break, therefore my actor had to also be with their family throughout most of the break. With this in mind while I was filming, I made sure to start filming very early in the morning to make sure I can get all of the shots correct. I then filmed all throughout the day, then I later ran into another problem. I checked the forecast and everything looked good, until I saw that there were no waves at the beach. I started to get nervous when I saw that, because I was scared that I wouldn't be able to complete my music video. However I though up a solution which was to film my actor swimming in the ocean, instead of surfing. With that portion of my project being complete, I had some weight lifted off of my shoulders, now I have to start editing. Editing is the hardest portion of filming in my opinion since you have to make sure every thing is correct. When I started editing, I never took into account that I would have to mute all the clips in my music video. I had to go in on every shot that I took and mute the entire thing to make sure you couldn't hear background noise. Then I added the music and cut it to make it only one minute. Later I cut out extra scenes in my music video since it was very long. Cutting out scenes was very challenging since I thought that every scene was important to the music video. Overall after days of editing I had finally completed the entirety on my music video, and I pushed through the challenges presented to me. 

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