Editing the Commercial

    Today was our last day to film. We finished both scenes two and scene four. I did both acting and filming for today. For scene two it was me showing off the NIKE slides. For scene four I was filming my group with the help of someone in another group showing off the NIKE Air Forces. Once we finished filming we actually stayed out and helped another group by acting in their film. After getting all the filming done for the day we went back to class to edit. Unfortunately, all of the groups using the school laptops were not able to edit. This caused a huge issue due to the fact that today was the day we had to start editing and also because we had to blog about it. Since the laptops were not allowing groups to edit we are left with explaining why as our blog.

    Our class laptops are extremely old. It is always a struggle to get things done on these laptops. Today, for example, the editing program on these laptops just shut down. This caused almost all of the groups to be stuck just dumping their footage and not being able to edit. So at this point, they were left with only being able to write a blog on how they weren’t able to edit today. I knew prior to even starting this class that the laptops were slow. This was because we had experienced something very similar to this last year in AICE Global Perspectives. Fortunately, since my group and I was aware of the issues with the laptops that was a factor as to why we are using our own laptop. So we were able to start the editing process. When we got back to class it was a completely different process than the rest of the groups.

   We didn’t get too far with editing today, but we did start. Once we got back to class we started by dumping the footage on to the laptop. Once we dumped the footage onto the laptop we moved it to iMovie in "my media". Once we put all onto media which is considered the raw footage, we went through and selected the best footage and placed it into the section to be edited. We then muted all of the footage because we will be doing voice-overs for all of them. We then cut down the footage to the length we wanted it to be and so that it would all add up to 30 seconds when we were done. After that, we were done editing for the day because of thats what we could do with the footage we had. We still have more footage to film so we couldn't edit too much. Also, some of the editings will be done at home because for example, we need no background noises when recording the voice-overs. So overall we had a productive day in class and were able to get some editing done to make up for not getting everything filmed today.