Editing

      For our editing, we decided to use iMovie rather than Pinnacle studios. We chose this because it was more efficient for us because we knew how to use it better than pinnacle studios. Also, using iMovie allows us to edit at home. This takes away the restriction of only editing during class time. Also, iMovie is more accessible to all of us because you can edit on your iPhone with it. Therefore, if we don’t have access to a computer, we can still work on our project. IMovie is very easy to use, similar to pinnacle studios. You can import pretty much as much footage as you want. You can add text and do everything that pinnacle studios can. Another benefit of using iMovie is that it is faster. The school computers are sometimes very slow. This is not helpful for us trying to edit out footage.
      All of us in my group contributed to the editing. Whether we have the idea, or actually edited. We used a lot of jump cuts and it was difficult to connect the sound to the visuals. We had to make sure they were connected as perfect as possible. The lip syncing, I think, was one of the hardest things to edit. We needed our lips to line up with the actual music. We also had to see which footage was actually usable. A lot of it wasn’t centered or had different problems. We either had to fix it or use different footage. We got a lot of footage so this wasn’t a huge problem. It was also hard choosing the order of the shots. We had to make sure we didn’t have duplicates or anything like that. Eventually, everything was figured out.
      Our group member, Savanna, is really good at editing. She has edited lots of things before so she did most of it. She made sure everything was smooth. We didn’t want any choppy cuts. We also had to make sure our scenes made sense and that they flowed together well. We made sure of this by watching it over and over to make it perfect. After 1 minute and 10 seconds, we ended it, although it was kind of in an awkward spot in the music. We just made it a fade out and cut it at a better time to fix that problem.