Editing part 2

    Today we were finally able to begin the editing process on our commercials. The schools gave us laptops with the software on them. I was lucky because my teacher told me the day before to get to class early so I could get a laptop. We had a system in which half the class would go for half the class and the other would go for the rest. This meant we were under a large time crunch. We were chosen as one of the first groups to edit. However, we filmed the commercial on an phone. So we had to download it onto a USB drive. We have had problems on the desktops with downloading. We were very fortunate that it downloaded flawlessly.
     When we got on to the laptops it took a long time to start up. This put us on a tighter time schedule. After about 3 minutes it finally started up and I opened pinnacle studio. Sadly, this program took even longer to startup. So we decided to work on iMovie and find music for the film. Yet, we still kept the computer running and the program opening. Once pinnacle studio finally opened we transferred the video onto the software. It functioned like a regular editing software but it was a little more complicated. We were able to upload a few of our clips and detach the audio from them. When out of nowhere pinnacle studios crashed and with it my hopes in the software.
    Due to this, we decided to go full on iMovie, but first we had to choose a song. The song had a few requirements for our specific commercial. It had to be royalty free and it had to be an upbeat song to pump up the audience. We went through a few EDM songs, when we found a very good song that was previously used on a FIFA advertisement. It was the perfect style, but it didn’t fit the plot of our ad. The song had to be low tempo at the beginning and then quickly drop the beat right when he scored or when the ball was controlled. We were also not sure if it was royalty free. Another large component of our commercial was a small sound byte that we would use when our subject scored. We contemplated using a clip of the commentator during Sergio Aguero’s title winning goal, but we decided to use a player much closer to our group-mate’s heart, Philippe Coutinho. We used a clip of the reporting done when he scored a free kick for Liverpool. Our final result ended up being near perfection as the music was perfectly timed with our subject’s steps, the beat dropped right when the subject controlled the ball, and the clip of the commentator was parallel to when they scored the free kick.