Hello! Today we added the final touches to our music video. We began by first muting all of our clips so that we could add in our remaining sound effects. Said audio clips included the sound of a shop doorbell dinging, the swooshing sound of an iPhone message sending, and the distinct ping of receiving a notification, all of which a group member of mine had converted from Youtube video files to MP3 audios, allowing us to easily overlay them onto our video. To ensure that the text found on the phone screen was readable for our audience, I used a video editing application known as “Prequel” to increase the contrast and lower the exposure of our video when the focus was placed on the phone screen of our subject. In doing so, I was then able to add in our official title, i.e., the name of the song and the band who performed it, which we decided would have a glowing effect to capture the attention of our audience. We also added in longer clips, which we had obtained by sticking to our “filming a scene multiple times” method. These shots were able to achieve the same purpose of allowing our audience to fully take in what was being displayed in front of them, especially when it came to displaying information that came from our subject's phone. After having done all of that, we dove in and worked on the main special effect for one of our scenes- blurring.
Blurring was much more difficult than we expected it to be, and I’d say that figuring out how to do so effectively was likely one of the most time-consuming parts of our second editing phase. While filming, we ensured to unfocus our background in an attempt to make this part of the editing process easier, but the real problem arose when it came time for the couple to actually walk by our subject. Since both our subject, who we intended to keep unblurred, and the couple who would be walking by were both in the same frame, we needed to find a way to keep a clear focus on our subject. Remember when I mentioned wanting to dabble in the DaVinci Resolve 17 program? Well, my wish came true because the application allowed me to selectively blur certain parts of the video, both the one mentioned above and when showing the subject's phone screen while they were on iMessage, thereby resolving our issue of being unable to change the times at which the text messages were sent. Moreover, using DaVinci Resolve 17 also gave me the opportunity to incorporate a panning shot in the diner and even superimpose the texts that our subject was receiving onto some of our clips to make them more visible to our audience.
As mentioned in my earlier filming blog, some of my group mates needed to shine their phones’ flashlights to provide better illumination for a few of our shots. Since lighting was another major concern of ours, one of my group members and I worked together to touch up the lighting in the entire video, as to make certain that it remained consistent and allowed us to obtain clear shots. At that point, I enlisted the help of my entire group to perfect the timing of our video and cut-down clips that we found to be too long in order to make our video less choppy. This simultaneously allowed for it to fit within our given time constraints, allowing it to reach a minute and twelve seconds. Overall, I’d say that we did a fantastic job of piecing together two days' worth of filming and integrating both sessions into one entire video.
Below, you’ll find a picture that illustrates the DaVinci Resolve 17 interface and me actively editing what I found to be the hardest scene to work with. It definitely required a lot of effort, but it certainly paid off in the end!
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