Production Blog- Final Touches

  Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog! Todays blog will be all about the last few tweaks I added to my music video. This last week was the week where I did all the finishing touches to the music video in the editing phase. I had to get cracking on all the remaining scenes that I didn't touch on last time, all the scenes that were less complicated to edit. Starting with the beach and open field scenes all I had to to was drag and drop them into the video. After that I just had to cut and line up each piece of footage and audio so that it fit nicely in the music video. After that I did the same for the remaining scenes. Those remaining scenes included: the car scene, the friends house scene, the intro scene, the drying off scene, and the sidewalk scenes. Once they were all put in and touched up with some cropping and tweaking the visual portion was mostly done for the music video. To give the visuals a break I started with the audio tweaks. First I had to find the right audio level for the music video so that no ambient sound is heard but also so that the music itself is not ear bleeding loud. I settled on around 20 decibels up from the original level and found that that worked out just right. After that I needed to do some editing on the length of the audio since I only have a minute of footage and the song s 4 minutes long. I figured out that if I use the beach scene for a quick pause in the music I can jump ahead in the song and make it only play out for a minute. So that's exactly what I did, I also made sure the beginning had some ambient noise as the song eventually fades in. And to match that I also made sure the song would fade out at the end too. That was the finishing touch for the audio section. All I left to do was color grade the footage. I spent my last two days color grading and sharpening the footage to make it as smooth as possible. And after that all I did was export the video, it was finished! That is al the time I have today, thank you for listening!

It was a pleasure, goodbye.

ANTON F









(A clip from on on the scenes I edited)

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