Actually Editing

On November 6, 2019 in Media Studies we finally began editing our Gatorade commercial. The reason we began late was two reasons. The first reason was because of the technical difficulty we were having in the school with the regular desktop computers. The second reason is because we didn't have our voice-overs recorded by then because it had slipped everyone's mind, so we also recorded our voice over on November 6, as well. We began the editing process by making sure we transferred all of our raw footage from the unusable computer to the new laptops that we got as a replacement. We used small laptops but they still worked really well and processed everything relatively quickly.
We each broke up the work as much as we could but one of the main editors was Katherine Murillas. We tried something that not many other groups tried which was making a split screen into three pieces. Katherine had a lot to do with that including actually doing it herself. I mainly helped with the transferring of footage from computer to laptop and laptop to the actual program. I first but all the footage we had on the desktop and but it back on to the SD card and SD card reader that we had available to us. Next, I plugged the SD card and SD card reader into the laptop and dumped everything onto the laptop. Then from the laptop I dumped everything into a pre-made folder labeled commercial for the project.

After I transferred everything to a folder I then opened the Pinnacle Studios 17 program on the laptop. I then pressed import and brought all the the raw footage onto the Pinnacle program. I let it render and then from there Katherine led most of the editing but I interjected every once in a while to make sure everything was going to plan. I am also going to be in charge of exporting the video once we are done. We are adding finishing touches on Friday, November 8, 2019. These finishing touches will make sure that the video appears the way we'd like it and everything runs smoothly. To export I just need to press the export button next to the import button and then render the video so that it can then be transferred onto the laptop itself. After we transfer it, we will then put it on a USB drive. We are going to put it on a USB to make it easy to transfer to the teacher's computer for a presentation to the class. This whole editing process was a group effort and we took a while trying to match up exactly what we said we were going to do in our previous blog. We set our expectations pretty high in our blog and I hope that with everything that we did it matches up to everything we described. We included our split screen sequence. In my opinion this split sequence is the most unique thing that we have compared to everyone else's commericial. In regular Gatorade commercials, its not rare to see the screen get split up into three different athletes. We wanted to be different but also stay traditional. That's why we took up the challenge of the split screen editing. Once again, it was a group effort that wouldn't have been possible with everyone's contributions. One more time, I helped with the importing, exporting, and helping direct the editing.