Editing for my Music Video

 I have finally completed all of the filming for my music video. This has been a challenging process but I am almost done with this project. After I completed filming, I watched some of my film to see if I needed to film anything again. I figured that all of my shots were good, so overall all of the film was good to use and edit with. I dumped all of my film onto my computer and imported it into iMovie to edit it together. I added the music to my film, which was easier to do than the last project I did. I started to edit all of my film together but we ran into a problem on the way. I filmed too much, therefore making the music video longer than the time it needs to be. My music video needs to be sixty seconds long, however with all of scenes that I filmed, mine was about one minute and thirty seconds. I had no idea what to trim or what to cut out the music video since I have never ran into this problem before. Instead of dealing with the problem when I had no idea what to do, I decided to keep on editing until the end, and then I would cut and trim the scenes. I first added the music and editing the scenes together so the music video would make sense together. I had to mute the sound of each scene so that the music would play over the scenes, like an actual music video. Muting all the scenes took a long time since I had so many of them and they were very long. I had to on each individual scene to mute all of the sound since I had no idea how to mute everything except for the music that will be playing in the background. After muting all of the scenes, I started editing each of the clips together, which didn't take as long. By the time I had finished muting all of the scenes and editing them together, it was the end of the day and I had to go to sleep. The next day I started to trim and cut out clips from the music video. This was probably the hardest part of editing the music video, since I felt that every part was needed within the music video. I started off with what may have been unnecessary, or didn't add anything to the music video. This trimmed out twenty seconds of the music video, since I realized a lot of the film was unnecessary. I then trimmed down some clips to make them a little bit shorter, which took out ten seconds. After trimming and getting rid of a bunch of scenes, I finally had my music video at the perfect time, sixty seconds. I trimmed down the music to make sixty seconds also, and after two days of editing, I have completed the editing portion of the music video. Editing was probably the most challenging part of the music video, but I feel this helped me grow in learning how to edit.