Editing Blog: Picking Shots [Humira]

 

One of the actors posing for a photo during the grocery store scene.

When I shot scenes, it was not in order of how I plan on placing them in the editing portion, but it was with a clear story line in mind. I also did not film with specific scene plans due to the fact that I had to use my backup plan. This meant that during editing I had quite a bit of footage and I know had to pick where and how to use it. I shot most of my scenes without even knowing if I would use them, only that they fit the theme of my commercial. By the end of my recording time I had surpassed 30 seconds of content, the length of the commercial.

At this point I knew I had to decide what footage I was going to use and I did, which I then described in my filming blog. I finished the editing fairly quickly, the short duration of the video meant less footage, so I only spent about an hour actually making it. What took the most time was what order to put them in and what additional edits I wanted to make with the actual footage. It ended up being a total of 5 scenes, one of which I split into 2 parts. Now that I've finished my commercial I can outline what I've done and how I've used each scene. 

The first scene of the commercial was of one of the actors in pain while the other comforting them. This is the scene I split into two parts. Between the split of these scene I added a shot of 4 other actors laughing happily in a room, without the actor who was in pain. On these two scenes I applied a muted filter to suppress color and add to the feeling of hopelessness. My 3rd scene was of 2 actors walking though a grocery store. I then added saturation to this scene and every one after it to enhance color and add a sense of liveliness. Scene 4 was of a meal and included all 5 actors laughing and talking. The last scene, scene 5, was off all 5 actors listening to music and doing makeup in the bathroom. 

Everyone of the scenes was muted so I could add voice over and after each scene I added a fade effect to help with the transition between shots. I recorded the audio separate from the video and I split the lines into 4 parts. I recorded all the lines using my own voice and didn't use any effects on the audio. I then added the voice over in the order I wanted it and over the correct scenes. I considered adding music as well but I didn't want the script to me too muted. Then I exported and saved my video to my files so I could submit it.

I did make the mistake of recording some of my scenes from a vertical or portrait perspective so I had to cut out some footage and crop the video to fit the frame. I also had to cut a scene short to fit the audio length but for besides that I didn't have to take out any of the remaining video length because of mistakes or bloopers.

[11/2/20]