Daheem’s A2 Music Portfolio

After sir saw the second draft, me and our teacher had a meeting on zoom with Fatima, so that she noted all the points that sir told I  missed anything. At the this point the man problem that I was facing was that even making the video 2 times, I still wasn’t exactly understanding what my teacher was trying to convey. The mistakes that I was making was more as whole rather than some shots.

So, he explained it to me step by step what had to be done and Fatima kept taking notes. The call ended up being very helpful and now I clearly

I started with cutting out a few girl waking up clips that seemed useless, now that we had new ones to put in.

After making the first draft, I discussed the video with my team mates. There were some tiny changes that were to be made and the main thing was that the waking up clips were still not complete. So I made a list of all the additions and changes so that planning for the final draft gets easy.

The next day Fatima sent me three clip of the same girl brushing her teeth but it wasn’t enough for the space we had left in our video after cutting out the useless girl waking up one so I decided to ask my brother to shoot me and then I shot his clip.

It literally took us only 10 minutes to shoot the clips, including the time of changing the bed sheets for my bro’s shoot.

We used the same location for the both shoots. After doing this, we both also shot each others smiles that we can include the smiles at the end.

After I got all the instructions from the teacher and group, I started working on the rough cut again.

I started with downloading traffic noise and pigeon noise from youtube through mp3 converter online.

Then I added both of the sound effects at the same time while making the noise of the pigeon a bit more louder so that we could hear it clearly against the traffic sound. I really couldn’t figure out how to make the sound louder so i searched on youtube and took help from it. Turned out that if you moved the fine line between the two sound effects, one over another, it became louder than the one over .

Completing the previous step, I use another wide shot of the bus stop scene in which the frame looked a bit better than the one before. I converted all the shots into jump cuts so that it looked fast paced. After this I made the song start from the last shot of the bus stop when the man starts smiling. In this way the main idea of the song, which is happiness, starts from the beginning.

After getting over with the bus stop scene, I started to search for good performance clips of the artist because our teacher suggested that either you out different quick shots together or one performance shot. Now that we don’t have one continuous performance shots so I had to use various shots, with jump cuts of course.

After this I removed the first clip of the theme park ride and add another one because the close-up really wasn’t working in this case. I was instructed to convert the clip into slow-motion but the thing is that the ride was already working slowly, so it worked better as it is.

Moving on, brought back the phone shots to the original scale. I tried making them bigger at the first place, scrolling through editing option all over Premier because I thought there was some kind of an effect option that would make it bigger, without ruining the quality of the video of course. Turned out that all I had to do was to double click on the screen and a scale appeared. Using one of the corners you stretch the clip to fit the full screen.

After three working days, I finally finished rough cut which is basically now a sequence of clips that I have combined according to the shot list and cut to fit the length of the song. No extra sound effects or video effects were added in this video.