Last week, the school computers crashed and the commercial project was paused until laptops were brought for the whole class. Luckily for our group, we were able to use one of our team member’s laptop to at least start the editing process. However, even with the slight head start our team couldn’t proceed further until the rest of the class got the chance to edit their commercials. It was Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 and the class was provided with class laptops that had the program Pinnacle. Unfortunately, since there wasn’t a sufficient amount of laptops for every group, the class had to rotate. As for our group, we used our team member’s laptop to continue editing from where we left off. Comparing the current state of our commercial from the previous state, the project has progressed further with the addition of more footage, inserts, and transitions. Although our team didn’t completely finish the editing process of the commercial, we were able to progress further from where we left off. Each team member worked together to get the commercial halfway done. Same like last time, me and Melshida were able to help verbally with what edit flows more swiftly and Rejoice worked more hands on with the editing process since it was her laptop we used.
During class, our team first inserted more raw footage of our commercial onto the app, IMovie. The clips added are the scenes that incorporated footage of buildings 8, 5, and 17. Along with the addition of raw footage, the team as well incorporated inserts of our school that shows the rooms of the programs offered here at Fort Lauderdale High School. To make the clips flow together, the team added different types of transitions that made the transition of each scene smooth. As a whole, the transitions included within the commercial were swap, cross blur, fade to black, fade to white, and a circle open. Different transitions was used based on the upcoming scene. The next edit our team did was cut the parts where I’m included within the scene of the commercial. My job within the film was to announce the scene and take of the current shot. We had to edit my part out to get right into the actual part of the commercial. Getting back to the subject of inserts, inserts was included to show specifically the courtroom our school provides, the law program log, the band, and the front of the school for our ending. The courtroom and the band was shown to indicate the variety of activities provided within the school and the law program log shows the variety of classes given for the Law Magnet Program.
It was November 7th, 2019, the whole class was given another opportunity to finish editing their commercials just in time for the deadline. It was a Professional Study Day (PSD) which meant that each class was cut shorter than usual. Because today was a PSD day, the class had a shorter time making edits to their commercials. Although today was a PSD day, our team still managed to conduct some new edits. For today, our team incorporated the voice over for the commercial and tried to match the audio with the correct scenes. The team had to cut any unnecessary audio that was either just background noise or was a small pause. For the remainder of the class period, our team tried to cut the voice over to match with the coordinating scene and took out any parts that was not needed. Our team's commercial was currently over the 30 second limit being 34 seconds in total. Our team is planning to cut down the extra four seconds by minimizing certain scenes that are extra long. Overall, our team is close to finishing up the entire project and just has to, for the time being, edit minor adjustments.
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