Production Blog: Music Madness

 Today was solely focused on getting the music in order. After all, it’s not a music video without any music. In my group, each person has an assigned role. Eden’s role was to film, my role was to edit, and taking care of music fell to Ashleigh. Regardless, I still try to help out with the other roles whenever I can. For example, though filming is not primarily my job, I still took on the work of filming myself singing and dancing to Ludacris’ part. I filmed a lot of the scenes in portrait mode rather than landscape so I’ll have to redo it but if we don’t have time, there are a few that I actually filmed the correct way that can be used. The issue today was getting the audio to transition smoothly from one part to the next. We didn’t go in order of the original song. Instead, we took audio clips from the beginning, middle, and end, and moved them around to our liking. There was overlapping of sounds and the rhythm from Justin’s signing to immediately Ludacris’ rapping was just not going well at first. It kept coming out choppy sounded and it definitely wasn’t ready to attach to the video clips yet. The biggest issue was a specific part of the song during the “baby whoa” chorus. When placed over another part of the song, it made a muffled licking sound. Even after we isolated it, the muffled sound was still slightly there. We tried re-extracting all the audio, reorganizing the clips, and even doing it on a new project in CapCut. Still, you could hear the sound faintly in the background. Turns out the muffled sound was coming from the original video filmed by Justin Bieber himself. There was no way to get rid of it without getting Justin to remake the whole song. We wasted about an hour trying to figure this out and still continued to work on it after that. Now-hours later, we’re finally finished with the audio. We just need to attach the video clips and audio clips, add the music, and whatever filters or effect is needed. After that, it’ll be over.