First Project: Commercial

In our media class we were told to complete a 30 second commercial and my group had Gatorade as a product. At first we had no idea on where to go or how to start, but once we did we continued with flying colors. Overall, this project was successful. Our storyboard was amazingly presented and our film covered all of wanted aspects. The process on the other hand was not easy. For example, the first issue presented to us was our time limit, we had about 40 minutes to film and dumb all of our recordings. This may seem like a lot of time but to us it was bare minimum because it was our first time completing such a task. While dumping the footage is where the second and third issue came to place. The camera we used to record had horrible quality and the software, Pinnacle Studios, was very slow and  gave us plenty of trouble. It’s as if our first project was made for trial and error.

As media students, we used this project to learn from our mistakes and correct them for the future. As for the time limit, we decided to never record in a short amount of time again. Doing so will allow us to get the amount of time needed to provide the best film without rushing. In addition, because of experience with both cameras and software wasn’t swell we’ve decided to no longer use it. For the remainder of the year we planned to use our phones and iMovie. This was convenient because it allowed us to record and edit on our own times. Recording off of our phones will result the issue with quality and using iMovie will allow us to edit with having as much software issue as we did with the school’s. By finding ways to overcome these obstacles and still present a well put film shows that my group and I was ready for any media project thrown our way.