Wrapping Up The Editing Process

      As the last provision, my partner and I decided to skin through the commercial we produced last time and fish out any mistakes. I paid more attention to the second half of the commercial as I was in charge of that. At this time, the commercial was not one homogenous file but skewed together. This means it would be easy to make any edits that I wanted to a specific. I noticed some clips went a little too fast so slowing clips down is something I looked for. On top of that, I looked at any transitions I wanted to change for the sake of speed. Finally, I thought it would be a good idea to play with the volume of the music in some parts of my half.

     I first looked at the transitions I wanted to change; it was the easiest. I changed the transition on the action match just to see if it had any repercussions; it did. Changing the fade-in transition to the jump count would increase the time that clip took up. This is important because, at this time, our commercial took up about 27 seconds, so I couldn't go crazy with changing much. So all I did with any clip that had a fade-in was decrease the amount of time it took to fade into the next clip. This was important considering my next step was to play with slowing/ speeding up clips

     In terms of speed; I automatically knew that the scenes I needed to slow down would be the ones that went by too quick/were too short. It became apparent to me that this was the forward over-the-shoulder shot and the action match. Using Imovie, you can slow down any clips with a simple slide of a finger using the slow/speed bar in the time section. I only slowed them down by milliseconds, but it now gave the viewer plenty of time to understand what was going on in the scene.

     I decided that it would be entertaining to add some volume dynamics with the music; so I did. Deciding where I would add volume dynamics would be the difficult part, but I eventually figured it out. I would severely lower the music in the scenes where my partner stops me to put on the mask; it exemplifies the awkwardness of the situation. Finally, on the forward tracking shot of myself, I added the slogan "MASKS FOR ALL" and the commercial was finally complete.