Final Editing

Nyaira and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel with our commercial project. We lost our footage from our first shooting day so we had to refilm. We regrouped our props and costumes and prepared for our reshoot. We wanted to take this opportunity to improve all aspects of the previous footage. To start, we worked the scenes from beginning to end with our transition scene from sleepy to the Autumn outfit. Then we moved on to transition shots and wide shots with dancing. Lastly, we filmed our promotional footage highlighting aspects of the products. It began with a slow-motion pour of the iced coffee. We then did a pan of the Dunkin donut box and coffee cup that ended with a zoom of the slogan.

After re-filming, we dumped our footage from the SD card onto our google drive. We found that Google drive was a good tool to share the same resources with each other and have it always available on any device. We reviewed our footage and briefly discussed our intentions with each take. If that meant using it, using some of it, or throwing the entire thing out completely.

Later that day, I began editing our footage. I began to do a rough cut where I put all shots in the order I wanted to on the editing platform. Then I cut each clip to size by trimming the beginning and end to keep just the essentials for timing and point. Next, Nyaira and I decided we wanted to only use music and a voice-over as audio. Therefore we disregarded all audio from original footage by deleting it. I downloaded an mp3 of the song we selected and uploaded it to our current video. I now aimed to match up some sections of the video to pieces of the song by either trimming, rearranging, or adjusting the playback speed.

Today in class, we finalized our script for the footage we have. We found a quiet space and Nyaira recorded voice memos of herself. We broke up each line as its own recording as we felt it would be easier to adjust one line to the shot then a continuous recording. The last step of editing is fading out the music at a certain point and matching up the voice over. We can't wait to share it!