Editing the commercial

Today during class we completed filming for our commercial. I initially gathered all the materials we needed to film. This included the tripod, camera, and SD card as well as the pass we needed to leave class. Then we went to the gym to get a Gatorade bottle and basketball that we needed as part of our commercial. I was the person who filmed a majority of the shots. This began with me filming a two-shot of Jontae and Edgardo dribbling a basketball. In order to do this I first set up the tripod and camera so that we could begin filming. Then I started and stopped the camera while the two of them dribbled their basketballs. I took about three takes of this scene so that we had a few options in the editing process in case one shot was not good.

I then filmed the scene of the two of them drinking Gatorade which was a medium shot. I filmed them doing this scene multiple times in case we couldn’t hear them saying their lines. Finally, I refilmed the final scene that I took last class of the close up of a Gatorade bottle. Once we completed our filming I packed up the camera and tripod and went back to class. I returned all the materials we used to film other than the SD card we needed for dumping our footage. I got the SD card reader and and I dumped the footage from our SD card onto the computer. I moved all our footage into the same folder as our footage from last class.

Then I had to move our footage into either a flash drive or our google drive. Since nobody in our group had a flash drive I used my google drive to store all our footage from our two days of filming into google drive. Then I shared it with the rest of the group in case I was not in class on a day that the group needed to access the footage. Unfortunately I could not complete any editing today. This was due to the fact that the computer took a long time to upload the footage from our SD card. In addition pinnacle studios was not working so even if I was able to get the footage onto the computer it would not have been possible for me to edit. Now that all of the filming is completed we just have to complete the editing process next class barring any technological issues.