Editing Blog: Making My Commercial 30 seconds

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After filming all my scenes, I had to sit down and narrow down what scenes I was actually going to include and not include. When I finished choosing what videos were going to be included I went ahead and inserted all my clips in iMovie. Once I had my clips placed in the correct order my video was a total of 48 seconds long. So I had to go back and condense the clips I used so that they would fit the 30 seconds time mark. First, I went into my camera roll and edited my videos straight from there. Afterwards, I reinserted the videos in their previous order after they were edited. After doing this my entire commercial altogether was still a little long. So I went back and took a look at the clips that I had that I decided not to use and tried using some of those instead. I replaced the second and fifth scene with a different video. The videos I chose not to use were not bad but I chose not to use them at first because I thought they would be short but I ended up using like two of the scenes that I chose not to use at first. Despite trying to replace some of these longer clips with shorter clips that still maintained the idea I had originally, I still ended up with a video that was longer than 30 seconds. So I went ahead and cut the Pampers logo and slogan picture at the end of my commercial to only 3.7 seconds because it was too long. For the audio in the first scene I went on Youtube and found a video of a baby crying and screen recorded it off of my phone to use in my video. Inserting this audio into my commercial was very difficult. At first, I did not know how to mute my video for the first scene so that I could insert another sound. Also, each time I tried to add the sound of the baby crying in the video I screen recorded the screen-recording video was visible in the commercial, but I did not want this. I only wanted to include the audio with no video and after watching a few Youtube tutorials I was finally able to insert this sound without the video. After successfully including the baby crying sound I had the sound of the baby crying and the background noise in my video overlapping, this is not what I wanted. So after several attempts of trying to figure out how to mute my video's background noise I was finally able to. For the rest of my sounds I also got them from Youtube and used the same process to insert them as I did in the first scene. For the first and second scene I also included text on the screen. As a result of my editing and cutting down I was able to achieve a 30 second commercial.

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