Editing

     Today we were supposed to edit our commercial that we filmed last class. However, we did run into some obstacles. One being the fact that we did not have pinnacle studios on the computer that we were assigned. In case you are wondering what pinnacle studios is, it is an editing app. So it is a major hurdle to jump considering we need to edit and we can’t edit. However, my group and I are looking for ways to do it. On idea was that we would use I movie on our phones. But that was quickly shot down because if I movie didn’t work the school wouldn’t be able to back us up. Another idea that we had was to wait for another computer to free up. Unfortunately, a lot of other groups that don’t have pinnacle studios have the same idea. So while we wait for a computer to open up we are writing this blog.
     But, even though we have been set back by pinnacle studios our teachers have not given up. Because our teachers and our school owns all of the equipment they have power. So our teacher are currently trying to get a computer cart in with pinnacle studios. That way we can edit our commercial. The other thing that our teachers are doing is contacting people with power to tell them of our dilemma. They have contacted our tech support, our principle, and Cambridge. This is an advantage of using school technology because if it doesn’t work it isn’t the end of the world. Compared to using your own platforms which may be nicer but you have no leeway if it crashes. All in all, we are patiently waiting for the computers to work. And while we wait we are discussing on what we could’ve done better for other films.
     Moving on, I’ll say what we would have if we had pinnacle studios. We would have edited things like voice overs on what the school is like. My group and I would have also have made cool transitions to cut to other scenes. If we were able to edit we would also have had a educational time because this would be the first time that we would be able to edit. So if pinnacle studios was up we would have learnt how to edit through a interactive lesson. But we were not able to do that. So my group dumped all of our footage onto a USB that we will bing to other classes in hopes that they might have pinnacle studios. Hopefully that will work but for the time being our due date has thankfully been postponed. And the positive of this is that we will have more time to think of cool ideas to edit into the commercial. And possibly more time to film because you can never have enough footage.