Editing the Commercial

      Today in class we were planning on editing our commercial. However the computers didn’t have Pinnacle Studios on it so we couldn’t follow through. After taking a few minutes to realize that we couldn’t edit. So we took our footage and dumped it into the computer. After it was dumped on the computer we transferred the footage onto Kyle’s Google drive. After we had that done we begun to look at our takes. We would’ve taken more shots, but we couldn’t because we weren’t wearing the same thing as on Thursday. We decided to look over our takes instead. We started with the first ones and went down. So the first shot we looked at was the one of Sean approaching the starting line.

      Of our few takes we were really happy with the second version of this shot. The rest of the shots had issues. When we were filming it was difficult to see whether shadows were effecting our shots. Unfortunately this resulted is in a lot of our shots to have this issue. I thing we will be able to fix this with editing but it will definitely be difficult. We went through some more shots. The one where I handed Sean the Gatorade went well. We really liked one of our takes on that. We also really liked the  shot of Sean slamming down the Gatorade. Those are important shots so we were very happy. 

      We then looked at the racing scenes. There were some really bad takes as this was a hard those shots. Some shots has people in the background and some were bad because of the shadows. We were happy with a few of the racing scenes luckily. Ultimately I think we will be able to put together a good commercial with what we have. The acting isn’t that bad and is at least passable. Some of the shots look really good. I think I did pretty good with the camera for my first time doing it. For the rest of class we didn’t have much to do other than discuss ideas of how to edit. It was a pretty productive day for what we had to deal with.