Editing: Completion!

    Today was my team's final day of editing. To start off from my last blog we regained the progress that was lost due to the crashing of our software. Once we got back on track and talked about what needed to get done today we started editing.

    When we started editing Rashawn showed us a new software he was using. He talked about how it was more professional than the other program and made it easier to edit. We then started to focus on the interview scene.

My group and I then begun looking at our previous edits and went over any suggestions or anything that should be changed. One of the things I suggested was adding more "life" or brightness to some of the scenes. My group as the scene looked dead and had limited color making the background grey.

   Rashawn and I then looked over the interview scene and thought it would be a good idea to have some sort of music in the background as I took out my hair from a bun. I made a suggestion on adding a choir kinda music or sound as I take out the bun because it would be funny and make the commercial better in my opinion. We then agreed on the idea and talked about potential options for the sounds.

    We then had to move so Rashawn could charge his laptop. We went to a new location and proceeded to work on adding different effects. Rashawn started teaching me how adjustment layering works which I found interesting. He showed me how putting a clip over the effect would cause the effect not to show. He also said it can help make the editing work smoother and simpler for us.

    After that, my group and I looked over some clips to finalize our commercial. We watched the commercial multiple times and watched for any mistakes. As well
as changes that could be made to better our final product.

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