Editing the commercial

Today my group and I were really excited to start editing

our commercial and begin the magical process of seeing

our commercial come to life. But sadly, that excitement came

to a halt when the editing software wasn’t working and half of

the school computers wouldn’t even turn on. It really sucked.

We were all ready and looking forward to editing and putting

our commercial together. Last class we dumped our footage

onto my personal computer because all of the school computers

had been in use. This morning in class, we had transported the

footage onto a flashdrive and then onto a school computer. After

twenty minutes of waiting for the footage to transfer, we were set

to edit. We then tried to open the editing software but we were

presented with a lovely message. “This application is blocked by

your administrator.”. After complaining about it to our teachers,

we were informed that the application itself had been down on

all the school computers. 

We ended up having to dump our footage not only on the school

computer. We also had to dump our footage onto my personal Google

Drive. Our teachers told us that the school computers may be wiped

of all data in order to fix the problem of the editing software not being

available. I went ahead and transferred all the footage onto my Google

Drive. After that, there wasn’t anything for us to do. We decided to try

and go in depth as to how we wanted our commercial to look like.

Even though we had discussed this in past classes, we tried to do

our best and talk about specifics. We discussed the different techniques

we wanted to use during the editing process. Since common conventions

in a typical Gatorade Commercial included jump cuts, flash pans, and

other fast paced editing styles. We also went into how different filters

and lighting can change how a scene is interpreted. 

Since we were not able to edit this class, our commercial schedule

was adjusted. We are going to edit the next class period and hopefully

finish the commercial. Next class, I hope that the editing software is

available to use. If the software isn’t available, I have no clue as to

when we are going to finish our commercial. Before we even started

filming our commercial, our teachers had hyped the editing process to

be a fun one. My group and I are still looking forward to it. Even with

this road bump, I think my group and I are going to enjoy the editing

process. Editing the commercial may be inspiring. I know what I want

to be when I grow up but that might change it. Seeing our work become

what we envisioned can be magical.