Editing

      We had to finish filming all of our footage. I had to sign out camera equipment and we took and set up our props. We had to reshoot a few scenes due to the outfit changes. The scene where the main actress arrives to the store had to be shot again because we decided it was better if it was closer to the stairs so the store could be where the sign was originally gonna be. We also decided to change some scenes since we couldn't film in certain areas and we had more props than we did on Thursday. I got a table for the "Vans Store" from the library which made it easier for us to film. Then we had to finish shooting the last scene which is a bunch of us walking away from the store. Filming took longer than we thought because other kids needed to use the stairs and the J.R.O.T.C class was practicing near where we were filming. One of our friends passed by us and we noticed he had Vans on. We persuaded him for a while until he finally agreed to be in the shot.
     After we finished filming we came back to class and started dumping all of our footage. We were suppose to start editing our commercial but the computers aren't working with Pinnacle Studios. When all of the footage was dumped we decided on what to do with editing. I had the idea about each one of us editing each scene but came to a conclusion that it would be confusing and more time consuming. We decided to edit the scenes together so we can explore the different features. After the footage finally finished dumping I returned the camera equipment and continued the next day.
     We dumped all the footage onto my flash drive and we went through all of our footage. We deleted all the unnecessary clips. We put all the clips into a folder and opened up Pinnacle Studios and started editing. We sorted out and put the clips together and started "trimming" each clip. After we finished, we watched it and see if we needed to modify it more. When we finished with our corrections we played it again to see if it ran smoothly. Then we actually began editing the clips. We added in transitions, speeded up some scenes to make it under 30 seconds. Our original commercial was gonna be a minute long so we had to go back and deleted some clips we didn't need. We saved the completed commercial on a flash drive and continued the last day.
     On the last day of editing we didn't have much left to do. We just added the Vans logo at the end of the commercial. After we finished editing we looked and decided on a song to put in the background at the end. We watched the final version of it to see if it runs smoothly and if its the way we wanted it.