Editing Blog

   Today my group members and I had to edit our commercials. Last time we couldn't edit because pinnacle studious wasn't working and some of the desktops were malfunctioning. Today we checked out one laptop. We only grabbed one computer because we only needed to do the editing on one computer. Last class Lauren transferred our footage to a google drive. Lauren signed into the computer after Jarvia checked it out. Our final version isn't due until next week Monday. Since, the film isn't due until Monday we spent Tuesday's class period reviewing our footage. We had at least a good 30 takes. Some of the takes were useless because they were accidental recordings.
   We started by looking at the takes we filmed for the first scene. The first scene consisted of  me (a mother) walking into McDonalds with Lauren and Jarvia (my children). We had to cut a lot of takes mainly because in some takes we were laughing or staring directly at the camera. After reviewing all of the takes for scene 1 we decided to keep two good takes. The next takes that we looked over were the takes for scene 2. Scene 2 was the scene where Anishcka (our waitress) came to take our order and inform us of what McDonalds has to offer. In this case she told us about the happy meal because that's what our McDonalds commercial focused on. We chose 3 takes for this scene. The takes that we chose were the close up of me ordering the food and the shot of our waitress taking our order. Finally we reviewed the shots for scenes 4 and 5. The takes for scene 4 showed Jarvia and Lauren opening their happy meals to find a surprise. The takes for scene 5 consisted of the children discussing their toys.
   Lastly, we chose the takes that we were going to use for the closing scene. After we chose the takes that we we're going to use to edit our laptop died. We made sure to save our work so that we'll be able to get started right away next class. Today is Thursday (11-7-19) and we started using pinnacle studios to edit our film. We had to find a ;picture of the McDonalds sign with a red background to fade into the first scene. After Lauren started reviewing the takes and cutting them she noticed that we went over time. Our commercial is supposed to be 25-30 seconds long. We realized that we had to cut out unnecessary scenes. We also had to do a split screen for the scene where the kids open their happy meals. We did this to save time and add in more important scenes. We ended up adjusting to the issue and we came up with a plan so that we wouldn't go overtime. Our computer died again, however we were able to save our work. Next class we should be done with editing our commercial.