Editing Process

      Today we actually began our editing process. My teacher ordered for our classroom to be supplied with laptops that had the editing software uploaded on to them. However, another problem surfaced, only 14 laptops had the editing software downloaded and in a class of roughly 70 students there would not be enough laptops supplied for every group to edit. Luckily, my group was one of the first groups to obtain a laptop so we got to start editing right away. Since we had originally dumped our footage on one of the desktop computers we had to re-dump our footage on the laptop. Fortunately, the laptops were more up to date and got up and running in a fraction of the time it took the desktops to load up. Once the footage was dumped I went through the same folder-making process as before. From there I opened up the software and began to import. Regardless of the advanced technology of the laptops it still took a considerable amount of time to import. This made my group mates and I slightly impatient because we only had a limited amount of time to edit.
      When all the footage was uploaded I had to decide which takes to use in the final product. We filmed multiple takes of each scene to ensure that we would have adequate options to choose from. From there I cut out any un-needed awkward silences or errors in the footage. Once all the footage was selected and cut I noticed that our footage exceeded the time limit and I had to adjust the duration of the film. To do this I sped up some of our scenes. For example, in our commercial, we included a pan of the football field that was awkwardly long. To fix this I cut some of it and sped up the pan. By doing so we reached a time that was comfortably within the limit. I added fading effects in between the shots to make the transition flow more smoothly. Furthermore, I decided we needed more editing so I added a title at the beginning of the commercial and later in the commercial a list of all the sports our schools offered.
        It was not until this moment that we remembered we had filmed extra footage on an iPhone after our camera died. Thankfully I had the correct cord needed to upload the footage. However, when I began to import the footage the laptop froze up. I tried a couple more times and received the same result. It was at this point one of my groupmates suggested that we email the footage to ourselves and access the email on the laptop and download it from there. This plan was a success. We decided that this was the finishing touch of our commercial so we watched the commercial from the beginning. To our surprise, the footage filmed on the iPhone was extremely blurry. We were extremely disappointed by this however at this time the bell rang and we had to return the computers. The next time we meet my groupmates and I will decide whether we should keep this footage or remove it altogether.