Working on Editing the Video

     I originally was going to work on the editing of the music video on my own. But after talking with my team members we decided to work on it all together. 

    My group and I worked on editing the video again. We started working together during class in order to have more communication. We were making edits and changes in class, but we encountered an issue. We were working on Rashawn's laptop in order to make edits. His computer ran out of storage during our editing. This changed our plan, because we needed to work after school. 

    After school we went back to our homes, and began talking in our group chat. Rashawn was editing and making changes to the video during our conversation of what to do for edits. He sent videos and photos of the edits he was making. Hadar and I were reviewing his edits to see if he made any mistakes. Hadar and I pointed out a few. We also gave our ideas and inputs on possible changes and edits that could be made.

    Rashawn has a lot of experience editing videos so I ended up learning quite a bit from him. I learned a few different types of editing techniques, and even different types of applications to use. One technique that he taught me is called A Vignette. It is a technique used to show flashbacks  of other points in time. It makes the scene stand out more and more evident that it's in the past. This technique will be helpful for my future in video and film editing. 



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