Final Blog for the Commercial!

        Our Commercial is done! After a couple days we decided to just do it on me and Alex's computers. We never had luck with our desktops or computers the school brought us. We already had the files on my computer, so we moved them to Alex's computer to begin editing. Alex had no trouble on his computer. His editing software was Final Cut Pro X. We already knew the sequence of clips, and it was very simple to put them into place. The only issue we had was the length of clips. We did not know how long the commercial would be at first, so we added full length clips. We also had trouble picking what clips to use. We didn't know which ones to use when we were doing the jump cuts because there was so many different combinations of us throwing the backpack.
        This set us back for a while because we wanted to try all the different combinations. Another thing that set us back was the song. At first, didn't know what song to use, so we played around with a couple different songs and tried to align them to the clips. In the end, this didn't work. We ended up just going with a consistent beat that kept the energy high and was good with the pace. However, our next issue was the fact that we didn't know when to start or end the beat. We ended up starting it 9 seconds in to build the pace. We ended up letting it play through the whole ending. This was one of our hardest places as a team because we all had different opinions and we couldn't come to an agreement.  We all came to an agreement it would be best to start it later, and play it all the way through.
         In the end, after our first editing process, our commercial was about an minute. This was a problem. We liked our commercial so much we had to start cutting out things we didn't want to. We got rid of the scene of walking onto the field. This took about 10 seconds off, and we still had more to go. to save more time, we started speeding up clips. The took about 7 more seconds off. To take the rest off we got rid of a pan to lose the last few seconds. This was the most crucial part because we still wanted to deliver our key message, but not lose anything. We ended up right at 30 seconds and were all satisfied with the whole commercial. We liked the Nike symbol and added a little flair by adding the colors.