(Actually) Editing the commercial

     On Monday we got into class and the computers still weren’t fixed. However, we now had a laptop cart available to us. We got to work quickly seeing as how short we were on time. Rafael did most of the editing. He had the most experience with technology and we wanted our commercial to be good. He composed all the scenes together. Once he did this the commercial was really long. We hadn’t expected that our commercial would be way too long. Rafael had the idea of fading the scenes in together. This only cut off 17 seconds. We were still at a minute and 30 seconds. Angelo was getting the music to use for our commercial. After we shaved off 17 seconds we added the music he picked out. I was really happy with that very lengthy commercial. However, I knew we were going to have to take while scenes out now. Rafael asked me what he should cut out. This led to the discussion of which scenes are actually important. I really like the scene of the actors walking in, I felt like it added to the commercial as a whole. However, it look up 7 seconds and didn’t hold any critical knowledge that helped the viewer understand the commercial. We sadly had to cut it out. After this, I told him we should cut out the scene where Darwin (the principal) throws out the students. We had added it for dramatic affect. The face Darwin made after he caught the students was enough to understand the consequences that they were going to face. From then, Rafael sped up all the scenes and the commercial was still too long. At this point most the filming we did on Day 2 was cut out. We obviously had to keep the scene where Rafael lists the consequences of vaping. We kept the scene of Angelo coughing in the commercial. Rafael then decided the ending wasn’t clear enough. Because of this, I had to record a voice over that would be added onto the end of the commercial. After adding the voice over our commercial was 31 seconds long. This proved to be rather annoying. However it was solved quickly when Rafael sped up the voice over. I’m not happy with the way it sounded after it was sped up but it was necessary. Overall, I am satisfied with our commercial. I did like the longer one but the final one is just fine.