Production Blog: Putting My Commercial Together


     What's up pals?

    The other day, I officially started the process of making my commercial. So, it would make sense chronologically that today I continued that process. (3)

    The first thing I did was cut out all the videos that I think are unnecessary for the commercial. These mainly included the more boring ones or the ones that are super old. I also cut out all the fluff from the videos I did decide to keep, so now most clips are only 3-7 seconds long. This definitely helped shorten the length of it. Before, it was almost 3 minutes long, but now its less than 1! 

    I had a really difficult time formatting my videos. Like I've said before, I don't take a lot of videos. When I do, though, they're usually filmed vertically and not horizontally. So, the majority of my videos are formatted vertically. This posed as a problem since the commercial is meant to be horizontal. So, I had to completely restart the whole thing, making sure the commercial looks horizontal. The thing is, if I actually made all the videos 16:9 instead of 9:16, then a lot would be cropped out. So instead, the videos look really small and there is a lot of black on both sides. I don't really like that it's like that, but my teacher said that it's ok for this project. I'm not going to do that for my other projects though. 

    I'm really excited to see how this turns out. I'm having such a fun time making it! 

    Anyway, I'll update you guys on my progress later!

    Bye!

    - Ella V. Agnese

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