Right now in our GT class we are making commercials for an invention we created. The invention has to solve a real life problem. My team members are Coral and Shaday (the same team members from my last post). Our main goal was to finish it on time. Our plan was originally approved 1 day late so we really wanted to stay ahead of schedule to get things done. We didn't want to turn it in on time if we didn't think it was as good as we could make it. We would rather have an amazing commercial that was turned in late rather than a bad commercial that was turned in on time.
Our best "team moment" definitely had to be when we were filming the shot where they open the ice cream. In the scene you see someone opening a tub of ice cream, and when they do it bubbles up and over flows (go to 12 seconds). We really enjoyed that scene because we got to mix baking soda and vinegar together. It was a little challenging because we had to keep testing it to find the right amount we should use. We wanted to make it so it goes all the way to the top of the container but doesn't over flow too much. After experimenting with different measurements of baking soda and vinegar, we finally figured out the perfect amount and it looked really cool.
​During post-production editing, Shaday definitely did most of the editing. That was probably because while filming, I directed most of the shots and Coral held the camera. I placed all the shots into the timeline, and Coral added effects and different sounds. I think that we were pretty fast at editing, we spent one day on editing, and we got a lot done. It usually takes us at least two days of editing to have a decent video. After editing, our video over and over again, and continued to make fine-tune edits. We really wanted to finish it one time. Our hardest part during editing would be trying to shorten all the shots to make it fit in the 40-50 second timeframe. We had a lot of long shots that we wanted to add but it would've gone over the time limit. Overall, our project turned out really good.
Our best "team moment" definitely had to be when we were filming the shot where they open the ice cream. In the scene you see someone opening a tub of ice cream, and when they do it bubbles up and over flows (go to 12 seconds). We really enjoyed that scene because we got to mix baking soda and vinegar together. It was a little challenging because we had to keep testing it to find the right amount we should use. We wanted to make it so it goes all the way to the top of the container but doesn't over flow too much. After experimenting with different measurements of baking soda and vinegar, we finally figured out the perfect amount and it looked really cool.
​During post-production editing, Shaday definitely did most of the editing. That was probably because while filming, I directed most of the shots and Coral held the camera. I placed all the shots into the timeline, and Coral added effects and different sounds. I think that we were pretty fast at editing, we spent one day on editing, and we got a lot done. It usually takes us at least two days of editing to have a decent video. After editing, our video over and over again, and continued to make fine-tune edits. We really wanted to finish it one time. Our hardest part during editing would be trying to shorten all the shots to make it fit in the 40-50 second timeframe. We had a lot of long shots that we wanted to add but it would've gone over the time limit. Overall, our project turned out really good.