Editing process

Today in class, I tried to edit the footage. Unfortunately, I ran into many difficulties. First, when I came into class, I noticed that our computer was weird. It had a message on the screen, and I couldn’t make it go away. I tried turning the computer on and off, but that didn’t work. Eventually I went up to the teacher to ask for help. She said to check if the computer was plugged in. Once I relayed this information to the rest of the group, I found the unplugged cord and fixed it. Then I turned the computer off and on again. Finally, it turned on and I could login. However, this wasn’t the end to our trouble. 

The next big difficulty came with the files from the filming process. I had my suspicions that not every shot taken made it onto the computer, and I was sadly proven correct. The first two scenes taken of me walking were missing. This would have crippled the whole commercial, if there wasn’t a reshoot! Last class, it was decided last minute to reshoot the whole commercial. So, the missing scenes were made up for! Additionally, reshooting created even more shots to use for the other scenes. Overall, I’m expecting to use the reshot scenes in the final product. This is because I felt more confident when acting those scenes out, and had already practiced what to do. 

The last problem was with Pinnical Studios. When I tried to open it, a message apeared that said it needed a login. I didn’t not have a login to use, so I decided to approach the teacher about it. Before I could ask, the teacher made an announcement. She said that no one would get in trouble if the school computers weren’t working, and to focus on saving the footage somewhere else besides the computer. I decided to email the footage to myself. Again, more technical difficulties, I found that I couldn’t email large files together. To try to find a way around this, I said that we should email each file independently, choosing the best shot to use out of each scene. This would make it easyer when it came to edit, as sorting thought to find the best shot wouldn’t be a problem. Watching the shots, I thought taking more shots total would have been better. Over all, the process of editing is proving to be more difficult that I had imagined.