Editing

     We finally got the computers working. We were able to edit our blog. We had a little trouble with it at first. Getting the footage in Pinnacle Studios was a but confusing. In the end we were able to get the footage on. There was a lot if times where we had to wait for things to load completely. In that time we mostly discussed what we wanted to do in terms of editing. I heavily pushed for Avril Lavigne to play in the background. We weren't too mad about waiting since we were happy just to be able to edit. After waiting we finally got Pinnacle Studios up and running. 
     We looked at the footage together.  Individually we assessed which clips we wanted to keep in. We also decided on which ones we would take out. There were scenes we shot a couple of times so we had to decide which one was better and chose that for the commercial. We mostly had an agreement on which clips we liked so picking which ones to go was easy. Then we put the footage in a folder to prepare for editing. Then one of our group members put the footage in order. Next, we started trimming the clips. We reviewed it again to see how good it looked. We then started editing each clip such as slowing it down or speeding it up when we needed to.
     Our commercial ended up being a minute long. We had to cut it down some more since it can only be 25-30 seconds. As a group we had to come to another agreement about which clips to keep in. Finally, it was short enough. After my great push the group agreed to put Sk8ter Boi in the background of the video to coincide with the theme. On the last day of editing all we had to do was add in the Vans logo. There were some issues here since it made the commercial too long. We got through and eventually finished. We reviewed it for the last time before all coming to the consensus that it was good. Our commercial is finally done and it looks amazing.