Editing

For our editing day we took it upon ourselves to use our time in a more productive way. For the first half of the day we went out to finish filming the last few parts of our commercial attempting to get a couple sounds and final shots established. That way we could have a set amount of content to use as we go to edit. However today once we finished our filming we dumped our material to continue our process we encountered a small issue with our technology. Pinnacle studios was down and was not functioning at all on any of the computers available to us. This set us back greatly as we already had our content organized and ready to be accumulated into one final file of our commercial. From here we felt very defeated as our full functioning plan was “shot down” by some faulty computers. We attempted to restart the computers, pinnacle studios, and the rest of the systems on the computer. However, even with the help of both my teachers, my fellow teammates and other students the program still wasn’t working. At this point we decided to give up and hope next class we could at least start our editing process.

Despite our setback we were still able to get some work done in planning. We sat down and very intently began to plan the next steps of our project. How we were going to go about the editing, the effects we wanted to use, and sound we wanted to add or take away from the videos. We also went a filmed some extra outdoor sounds plus some extra ones. For example, the opening of the gatorade bottle and the sound of kicking the soccer ball were all attempted to capture the sound of each. For those sounds if used, we decided to plan to edit them into the commercial by just hightening the sound. As well as recorded some actual clips of speaking parts in case voiceovers didn’t always work during the editing process.

For our next class we hope to achieve the following. Re-dump any footage from my phone (our filming device) onto the computer. Begin to edit the clips at least just putting them together. Decide what final clips fit cohesively into one so that our editing doesn’t look sloppy or ameture. Record alf add in voice overs or any diegetic/ non-diegetic sounds. Due to the fact that pinnacle studios was not working today and we were not able to even open it today we realize much of this may not be completed. For example, we still need to familiarize ourselves with the system itself and figure out how it works even with the steps we’ve already gotten to use it. Therefore we may encounter another setback which is making sure we understand how pinnacle studios works to them be able to use it and implement it properly into the use of our commercial.