Editing

          We have finally gotten new computers for editing. I say this because it took very long for us to get the software. Due to these technical difficulties we received more time for our commercials. It is now due next week instead of this week. This added time will allow my group to make the best commercial possible. I am very appreciative of Ms. Katz for being very empathetic to the situation and extending our time. Also that they are making sure the problem is correctly solved. This project is a large part of our grade and it would be unfortunate if a problem out of our control would take points away from us. Due to this, I am very thankful for the amazing teacher we have. Fortunately for us, Alex had a laptop that we could use for editing. He decided to bring it in so we don't need to wait. This made the editing process quicker for us because we did not have to wait for new computers.
          Initially, we uploaded the dumped footage onto the editing software. We then started by watching the raw footage. Unfortunately, we realized that it was much longer than 30 seconds. To fix this we cut some unneeded film out as well as slightly speed up a few parts. Doing this fixed our problem and ultimately got our commercial down to 30 seconds. We then started to put transitions. After cutting down the footage we started on transitions. We did our first transition were Alex was thrown a bag and when he catches the bag it changes scenes. We also added fade and dissolve transitions in between scenes. At the end we put a transition from the scene into a black screen with a Nike logo.We also made the logo more colorful. We did not add any sounds but we did add music. We chose to do this to make the commercial more upbeat and fun. We also added special effect animations. Such as effects around the soccer ball when shooting to make it look more professional. I believe that all in all our commercial came out great. This is because we spent time carefully editing to make sure it is the best we can make it.