Editing Blog

 Today in my AICE Media Studies class, my group and I finished the majority of our editing process. Having not had working laptops for two days, I began to worry about whether we would have enough time to edit our commercial. Thankfully the new laptops were ready to use when we came into class on November 4th. Finally, we were able to begin editing our footage. We were told during the class that we would have two days to finish editing the 30 second commercial. While that may seem like more than enough time, it was actually really stressful to finish on time. The new laptops still had the issue of taking a long time to load which wasted quite a lot of time for editing. However, I was just glad that we had working laptops to use, so we just had to be patient. Also a few disagreements arose on certain editing choices, such as which footage would be best to use. Another disagreement involved the split screen that we had included in our commercial. After a bit of careful consideration and comprise we were able to resolve the issues. Even with the obstacles we ran into we were able to almost entirely finish our commercial over the two days. Now that the commercial is almost complete, I’m a lot less stressed and am very appreciative of the experience.

 During class on November 4th, we finally began editing our footage for our commercial. After two classes of delay, I was anxious to start editing and we got to work right away. Leila got up to sign out one of the new laptops while Hannah, Hailey, and I discussed our process for editing the commercial efficiently. Once we had a laptop, we logged into the laptop which took around 15 minutes as it was the first time the laptops had been logged into in a while. After the laptop finished loading we dumped our footage from a flash drive onto the laptop. We had decided that for the first day, Hannah and Leila would do most of the editing. Meanwhile, Hailey and I would look for music to use for the commercial. I started by looking at music used in other Gatorade commercials to get an idea of the type of music to use. Once I had an idea of what I wanted to use for music, I began searching words for music to use. After quite a while of Hailey and I looking through different songs, we found one that we agreed would work and checked with the rest of our group to get their opinions. We decided that the song fit well and since we had a while left in class, I helped with editing till the bell.

 On November 6th, we were able to almost finish editing. We had decided when class started that Hannah and Leila would take less control so that Hailey and I could work on editing. After I uploaded the music we had chosen onto the laptop, I was able to add it into the commercial. I spent a short time messing around with different options while I got the hang of editing with some help from Leila and Hannah, since they had already spent time learning how to use the software. I quickly got the hang of it and began to really enjoy editing the commercial. Our commercial at the beginning of class was still about a minute over so I had to spend quite a while editing the footage down. After editing the footage down I spent the rest of class working on timing the music and voiceovers with the newly adjusted footage and by the end of class the commercial was almost entirely completed. Overall, editing the commercial was actually extremely fun and I learned a lot about the software and editing along the way. Even though it was stressful at times, I had a good time overall when editing.