Editing Blog

Today in class we were able to access pinnacle studios which allowed us to begin editing. I initially gathered all of the footage which I previously moved into my google drive. I created a folder on the new laptop which had pinnacle studios and moved all of the footage into it. This allowed me to import the clips into pinnacle studios. Once the footage was imported into pinnacle studios I looked through all of the clips we had from our two days of filming. Then I chose which ones I thought were the best takes and I began putting them together to make our commercial. I put all of the clips we needed in the full commercial in order by following our storyboard. This began with a wide shot of somebody running on the track and then him drinking gatorade. Then I transitioned into the two-shot of people dribbling a basketball and then them drinking gatorade. Finally there is a close of of somebody slamming a gatorade bottle.

Then I shortened each clips to only include what we wanted in our commercial. I did this by cutting one clip into different clips and deleting the parts we did not want to use. Then we had to incorporate some transitions between shots. I went through the list of different transitions and chose the ones which my group and I decided were the best. These transitions included a dissolve, a wipe, and a fade in. For example, we used a wipe to transition into the two-shot of people drinking gatorade. Moreover, when going from the track to people playing basketball I used a fade. Then I added a title slide at the beginning of the commercial which said gatorade. I did this by putting the slide in track one rather than in track two with the rest of our footage.

Additionally, I put a basketball moving across the screen towards the end of the commercial. This was after we had already seen the two-shot of people playing basketball in the commercial. The way this was done was by turning the shot of people drinking gatorade into a basketball. This basketball then bounced away as somebody slammed the gatorade bottle. Then I had to add some sound effects to our commercial. I did this by adding the audio into the third track on pinnacle studios. This was because the first track was designated for title slides and the second track was specifically for our footage. The only sound I added was at the end when there was a close up of a gatorade bottle being slammed.