Editing Blog: Music and fixing

For the editing, I helped out a lot in the music portion. First, me and my group mates met on a call, and we began to discuss what we should add, or fix for the commercial. As I said, my portion was pretty much the music and fixing any bugs or glitches in the film. I had to make sure that the music would fit the overall theme and tone of the commercial. This ended up being a more intense and dramatic music to fit the commercial. I then had to make sure the music fit the overall pacing and different shots of the commercial. This way a really intense part of the music wouldn't play for just me doing something simple like setting up the ball. Other than this, I made sure that the music would cut off at certain moments where we needed the audio to be emphasized.  I also made sure that it fit within the time frame of the commercial and wouldn’t go over the time we needed. I sent my group mates around 3 different choices of music for the commercial. One of them being lighter and more upbeat, another being more neutral, and another being more intense and action oriented. Our group discussed, and eventually chose one that would fit the best for the commercial. Getting it to export to the editing software was rather difficult, as it took a while to load. Other than this, I also helped edit out/fix anything that we needed for the film. For example, during one of our Dutch Angle shots my group used a blur. However, I noticed that the blur would sometimes not be in the shot, and it would look normal. I pointed this out to my group mates, and then I helped fix it by making the blur last for a longer amount of time during the shots that we needed it for. I also assisted in making some shots shorter. This way, we would meet the amount of time needed for the commercial guideline. I helped do different jump cuts and overall cuts from parts of the commercial such as when I drank the Gatorade bottle, and when I was deep breathing.