Commercial Editing Blog

After I was comfortable with the shots I filmed for my commercial it was now time to edit. I took my film on my canon camera so I had to transfer the photos over to my iPad where I can easily edit. I transferred the photo's from a connection app and was able to select which ones to edit. For my editing I used the editor known as iMovie at first, However I ran into a problem of storage. So I then had to use my back up plan and do my editing on the computer with one of the apps provided to me by my teachers. When I was editing I found that many of the clips I took were long. They had sections where I had to rearrange props so I had to cut many parts out. I wanted my commercial to sort of flow together. I moved frames where they looked best in order to create this effect. In the opening scene I was able to edit the bottle where the contrast of light shined across it. This made the bottle have depth and shadow.  What I found most difficult when editing was putting together the actors videos. This is because we each handed off the tabasco so I had to make sure our hands aligned to the side of the screen. Some of my videos I had to speed up. I did this so my video stayed under the 30 second mark. Additionally, I had to make a few changes to lighting. In some cases I found that my lighting was too dark so I had to put up the brightness. During editing I also had to learn to add in music. For music I had to make sure it would be aligned from when I wanted my commercial to start and stop. This process helped me grow a lot in time management and learning how to put together many small videos into one.






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