Classwork: Multicam editing

In this blog you can find the work I did on how to edit with multiple cameras. My group filmed the footage, but I edited it alone. My teacher provided a template for the blog post. 

What is Multicam Editing?

Multicam editing is the process of editing footage of a single scene or subject recorded from different cameras and angles. Showing the same scene or subject from different angles helps make the video more dynamic and visually captivating for your audience

Shooting

Our subject , a classmate, stood in the centre of the room and did a short performance. My group stood around the subject to record the performance from different angles. You can also see members from other groups because we did this lesson as a class. To make it easier to synchronise our cameras, the teacher clapped at the start of the scene. This allowed us to line up the video in the editing process and ensure that the transitions would be smooth. Without this simple action it would have taken a lot longer to sync the videos. 

(BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGES): LINK HERE

Here are the raw videos from my group members:

1. Nathan

2. Ata

3. Haresha

4. Louis was the one acting*

My editing process

• Upload the videos to the editing software (CapCut)

• Detach the audio of the clip you wish to use in the final video. 

• Find the ‘clap’ marker on the audio.

• Line up the video files together. 

• Cut where I want the edit to happen

• Don’t delete the clip, just lower the opacity. This way it can be used again later. 

• Mute all clips except for the one you want to use. 

Here is my final edited video:

Reflection: 

At the beginning of the editing process, I had a little trouble because I was confused on what to do and how to make match-cuts since one of the video didnt start recording before the clap. Also, using a phone to edit with capcut is way different than using laptop. But after a while of trying to figure out how to match the videos' timing with my video, i started to pick up some momentum and quickly understand the key to match-cuts. I extracted the audio from my video, and then used the feature "add beats" to match the audio with the other clips which made it much easier for me to edit. I managed to finish editing right before the class ends.

Mini Project

MINI PROJECT: Music Video 

This is my group's mini project. Our task here was to create a lipsyncing video for a specific part from a song called "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles

Before we continued our big music video project, our teacher, Mr.Nick, had given us a task. The task that was given is making a small video of us lipsyncing a song from The Beatle which is called Here Comes the Sun. We were given about a week to finish this mini project. The point of this mini project is to improve our lipsyncing skills for our big music video project.

Our teacher had some recommendations about the mini project, he said something about instead of lipsyncing it's better to actually sing the song. I get his point, because when we actually sing the song, our lips would have a much more accurate movement and improves the quality of our performance.

Post Production

This is the part where we do all the planning and storyboard which my group mates did (Nathan and Louis). After that, our teacher said we only had about 35 minutes to shoot the scenes, maybe more or less, which I'd say that was quite a small amount of time. Mr also said we can only shoot at the pre-school building (which is the building we are currently in) to avoide any distractions. So we started shooting..

 Production

This is the part where we started recording our mini project, yippee. We recorded our scenes based off of our storyboard. Our location of production was in the pre-school canteen and it was raining quite heavily which kinda defeats the reason why this music was chosen for the mini project. The part where it goes "Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting" was our first scene to shoot. Also, the surroundings were quite loud because of the rain, but luckily Nathan brought his mini speaker which helped us a lot to sync our movement and to recognize the beat much clear.

On the second scene, the sun appeared just a little. We moved the another side of the canteen which was the stairs, not the one heading to the second floor. Thankfully, the sky got brighter which helped us a lot with our scene because it gave us an idea. It took us about 3 shots to finish right before the time ran out which was quicker than we expected it to be. 

Post Production

Lastly, after we finished shooting the scenes, we went back up to our classroom to edit the videos, sync the music with the video. However, time wasn't on our side because we only had a little time to edit which was about 30 minutes?? Atleast that's what I remember. We divided tasks. Nathan and Louis were editing the video, Haresha and I did the blogpost as well as uploading behind the scenes documents.

Video Result 

Video: 

Reflection:

Honestly, I think our group did pretty well. Our chemistry was driven well. Even in situations that we didn't expect, our result wasn't disappointing. The way we communicate to each other was good as well as the way we divide tasks where Nathan and Louis did the shooting and acting, Haresha and I created the blogpost as well as taking documentations of behind the scenes. We only had a little time to create blogpost and edit the video, so we had to take it home and work on it over the weekends. Thankfully, we finished our mini project on time. 

Filming Schedule

 In this page, you will see our filming schedules and plan! This is how we keep track of our progress and where should we be at the moment.

Reflection:

The filming schedule and plan is very very important because without this schedule, we woulnd't know what to do in this period of time. This schedule keeps us in track of time so that things go efficiently and as planned. While doing this part of the project that Friday, I had a basketball match against GMIS in JB Cup so I had to leave earlier than all of my classmates. Thankfully, my group partners managed to finish this schedule quickly. 

Location Scout & Risk Asssesment

 Here is my Location Scout and Risk Assessment where I analyze the potential risks of the places that my group plan to use.

Reflection:

So far, this is the part that we had to put the most effort in because this is where we had to do a lot of research and evaluate the risks that our group might encounter. But, it wasnt as hard as we thought it would be since all of us have been living in Bali for almost two decades, meaning that we know Bali very well which helps us to be more efficient in finding locations to shoot at. Me and Nathan also discussed about how we should shoot at "M Mart" rather than at a Cricle K because M Mart is much cleaner than most Circle Ks and also having a very bright lighting also gives us an advantage in M Mart. Also, M Mart is much much closer to Nathan's home (where we will start from). 

Classwork

 This is the page where a bunch of classwork is going to be shown!

Screen Test

 This is a screen test for our music video project. We used a song called "Don't stop me now" by Queen which we all lip-synced to. 

Reflection:

This was done by everyone in the classroom, however, sadly I wasnt there because I had a basketball match upcoming. Mr. Nick had the idea of having everyone go all at once in the recording so it doesnt have to seperate and there were some advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is much more efficient as everyone go all at once, some people also might feel a little more comfortable singing together because they can vibe to it together. The disadvantage is that most people are still shy while recording and also not everyone knows the lyrics to this music.

Song Research

 This is a song research that we're supposed to do which now we will take a look of  "Telephones" by Vacation! This song matches the genre that we are targetting for which is Indierock / Indiepop.

Reflection:

For this part of the project, we already had this song choice in mind for a couple weeks ago even before the project had started. Our team and I had a discussion straight after Mr. Nick announced the project which led us to a Vacations, its the band that usually creates chill indie music which a lot of people listen a lot to. FYI, this song does not have a music video yet.

Storyboard

 This is where I will show you our group's storyboard for this music video project!

Reflection:

This storyboard is not our actual one, meaning that this is not the storyboard that we will use. The reason why we use this is only to put something in this blog because one of our team members, Nathan needs to be absent from school for the whole week due to a family emergency. We all wish Nathan well and hope that he could come back to school strong as usual. Our real storyboard was brought by Nathan so we couldn't put it in our blogs yet. However, Mr. Nick says that it's okay for us to not have our real storyboard since it's on Nathan's hands and as long as we have something on this blog post, he will grade it generously, so we decided to just put Louis' storyboard first. This is our biggest struggle in the team, yet the solution is better than we expected. We all hope that Nathan can come back stronger than usual.

Lyric Sheet

 This is the Lyric Sheet for our music video project from "Telephones" by Vacations!

Telephones - Vacations

Rise with the morning
You call to me
My thoughts are crawling
You're all I see

I wish I could live without you
But you're a part of me
Wherever I go
You'll always be next to me

Fall into the night
As I gaze into you
Shine so bright
It's all I do

I wish I could live without you
But you're a part of me
Wherever I go
You'll always be next to me

You'll always be next to me
You'll always be next to me
You'll always be next to me
You'll always be next to me

Source: LyricFind

Reflection:

We had a major problem. Our team member, Nathan was absent for the whole week due to a very heartbreaking familiy emergency. However, Mr. Nick said it was okay for us to skip this part but he also told us to just put something that we have in this blog post but Nathan has our lyrics sheet and storyboard. So in this case, I just put the lyrics on the blog post so it doesn't seem empty. 

MoodBoard

 Here is my moodboard that me and my group has made.

MUDBORT

Moodboard has to be one of the easiest task that me and my group had to make because we only had to find pictures that matches the vibes of our music video which we had to find them through the internet. Our moodboard represents how our music video is going to be. The first slide shows a dark, gloomy and lonely vibe which gives out the feeling of sadness which may be relatable to some young teenagers. The second slide shows a sunset / sunrise which also gives out the vibes of lonliness and the nice view. 

Elon Musk X Twitter

 Here is my poster of Elon Musk and Twitter with Haresha