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 myself. 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 angles from my group members:

1. Me :

2. Haresha :

3. Ata:

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. 

 ( INCLUDE SCREENSHOTS OF YOUR EDITING)

Here is my final edited video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCe3UcbOxni1h5bHcqYCW307_Pl_xO7l/view?usp=sharing

Reflection: This project was very hard as my laptop does not have the capability to run an editing software as I often edit with my computer, to solve this I thought I might borrow my friend's stronger laptop and run a lighter editing software like CapCut instead of my usual DaVinci resolve, but it did not solve the problem as from what can be seen in the final product and in the screenshot, I could not sync the video up as the audio and the visual preview was delayed. I used a laptop because I am more familiar with desktop editing software but in this case I think that if I used my phone it would've run faster but I would've had a larger learning curve.

Shooting Practice: Music video

This post contains the mini project we did in class in order to hone in our skills on making a music video, especially the performance aspect. For this mini project, I did the camera work.

Lesson Description: My teacher gave each group a verse from THE BEATLES - Here Comes the Sun. We had to plan a scene which included various camera work and edits. The goal was to improve our lip syncing skills, which it later on will be use for our bigger Music video project.

the verse we were assigned:

[Verse 3]

Little darling

I feel that ice is slowly melting

Little darling

It seems like years since it's been clear

Below are the photos we took behind the scenes during production and post production:

What we did:

We were tasked tasked to create a scene of our actor(s) performing the verse we were given, we were given 15 minutes to create a short storyboard before getting into recording the scene, after 30 minutes of recording, we were given until the end of the lesson to edit and polish the video through post production. 

Problems we had:

    - The weather did not fit the theme of the song (it was raining)

    - I was not used to using iPhone camera so there was a learning curve trying to get the movements,          handling and focusing right.

    - Limited time, there was limited time to create the storyboard & in the end we had to improvise              instead as the storyboard was written when we didn't expect the rain, therefore taking some of our          recording time to think of ideas.

Solutions:

    - Bad weather meant we just had to improvise the recording

    - We used contrasting 

our video (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ViCVTe7_EOhNew5qeUsqhVQ30wb_vyD8/view)