Editing Blog: Checking for Choppiness

     As I finished filming, I began editing and piecing my videos, clips, and audios together. After airdropping the video clips from my phone to the laptop, I began importing all the clips into iMovie. I then cut each clip to the duration I needed for each scene. The commercial was well over the 30-31 second time frame which meant that I needed to further trim and cut the clips. Some scenes needed to be sped up in order to fulfill the time sequence. After I adjusted each clip, I began to detach the audio from recordings to place over action scenes in my commercial. This will allow a voiceover effect to the commercial. I also did this technique with the bubbling sound effect in the first, beginning scene of the commercial. Next, I imported music and placed it over the entire commercial. I made sure to check and adjust the levels of the sounds between the music and my voice so they would not clash with each other. I also did this to make sure neither would overpower the other. I then reviewed the entire commercial to see if everything was in place and order. However, I had forgotten to check for choppiness clean transitions throughout the film. I made sure to go back and trim clips and add transitions between slides when introducing a new topic. Some scenes also were uneven or unidentical to the previous scene. This meant that I needed to crop the video itself to fit the standards. Making a side by side edit was the most difficult part in my editing experience. I had to make sure to position the the videos in the exact frame in order for the scene to make sense. Lastly, I reviewed the rubric of the commercial making sure I followed every guideline and requirement needed for the commercial. At the end, I achieved a time of 30 seconds of commercial film as instructed.