Final blog

The end is finally near. We will be submitting the commercial on Monday and I am very excited. Although this was fun, I will admit the due dates tended to stress me. Today we had a PSD so classes were cut about 45 minute short which was not helpful for our editing. Last class there were many issues with getting our film onto pinnacle studios in the first place but eventually we figured it out. We watched our film and came up with a layout. It was only two people in our group there but we managed to at least set a layer of what we want to see in the commercial. Today, even though we have a short class, we got a lot done. We cropped the videos and tried to blend them together as much as possible. We have not done audio, since there is much to take out and add in. Hopefully we can work on it during our free period tomorrow and finalize the commercial. We are currently fixing up the titles and aligning them with the right clip.
As of now, the commercial looks good. There are some things we had to change from initial thought. The scene where the guy counts down the race and shoots into the air is being cuz from the commercial. This is due to the fact that the commercial was already long and the scene did not match the rest. We also put a lot of thought into the running scene because we had two separate clips and they both had good shots but we could not seem to blend them well. Figuring out how to crop clips was pretty simple. I am glad I have worked with Imovie before and that my group has also worked with creating videos because it made the process easier. Many of our clips were very long, which made cutting the clips to its best fit very important. A positive feature of our film are the angles within the filming. We did a good job having shots that represented a certain angle, for example the close up and the two shot.
Overall there were many aspects to creating this commercial. Looking at the earlier stages, the importance really enhanced now that I am almost ready to submit it. The planning stage really is important to have a good understanding of how we wanted the film to come out. Ive learned that although every shot may not be exactly what we want, the idea is what is vital to coming up with a good commercial. To have a backup plan is also an important step in filming. If it had rained or the field was being used, the entire plot would have changed and the commercial would have turned out very different. This shows how important having another plan was. There wouldn't be much i would change except having more film. Even though time was a problem, doing a couple more shots for each scene would have been helpful for editing.