Editing Blog for Commercial

After filming each of our shots and saved them to a flash drive, it was time to begin editing. Our first days for editing were halted, as Pinnacle Studios was down on the computers. So, we had to wait until next week to actually begin the editing process. On Tuesday, we finally began editing our commercial. We first pulled up the footage from the flash drive to review what we recorded. During this time, we decided to delete some of the outtakes as they would no longer be used in our commercial. After reviewing the clips on more time altogether, we decided that we happy with the clips that we were left with. To begin editing, we first took the clips off the flash drive and put it into a folder to prepare it for Pinnacle Studios. Then we opened pinnacle studios then we put the clips together. We made sure to follow the order of our storyboard when organizing our footage.

 After everything was in order, we then began trimming each clip. We had to make sure that no dialogue, other than the one needed for the commercial, was included. After putting all the footage together, we reviewed it to see if we liked how it looked so far. We decided to add some other trimming touches after reviewing so that the clips would run more smoothly. This also included added our transitions such as cutaways, dissolves, and jumpcuts. Next, we began editing the actual content of the footage itself. This included speeding up and slowing down some clips. This was necessary to make the story of the commercial more cohesive. This was also an important step because our commercial was originally too long. Some clips were sped up to reach the limit of 35 seconds for the commercial. I decided that we would also have to delete some clips due to our commercial being over 1 minute long still.

As a group, we all agreed on which parts exactly we wanted to remove from our commercial. After shortening the entire commercial, it finally got up to be 35 seconds long. We then watched our commercial again to see if it met our standards. At this point, it was time to add sound to our commercial. After discussing what song we wanted to have in the commercial, we saved our project to Audrey's flash drive. This had ended our first day of editing. This is also where I borrowed Audrey's flash drive and went home to add music to our commercial. I recorded the song 'skater boi' by Avril Lavigne and added it to our commercial. I also had to trim down the song to only include the chorus for our commercial. After completing this, I saved the finishing changes to Audrey flash drive. The next morning I sent the commercial to Audrey which had ended my role in editing, as I was not here during my group's last day of editing.