Editing Blog: Just Right

      After two weekends of filming, it was time to start the editing process. Because I shot everything on my iPhone, I figured that iMovie would be the best program to edit on. It recently received an update with many new features transported from the desktop version. I used my phone to edit all of the scenes because it would be easier to transfer video files and voice recordings for the b-roll. 

     To start off, I began editing the first scene (the title introduction scene). I used the text feature in iMovie to add the period of the phone and the word phone after the phone itself to creates the illusion that the iPhone was apart of the title. I then added a voiceover to the scene and say, "Welcome to iPhone XR." I will use a swipe transition to move to the next scene where I will list the specifics of the iPhone from a high angle shot of the phone.

     Then after the specifics are listed, my first scene with actors will be shown through a jump cut. This was the scene showing two of my actors on facetime having a casual conversation while one of the actors has in a pair of AirPods for product placement. I used a relatively easy video editing technique, "picture, and picture" and cropping to get the effect that I wanted. I used three different shots for this, a still shot of the phone and two videos of my actors. I then used the "picture in picture" to emulate a facetime call and cropped it into the phone. Then for the transition to the next scene, it would be a fade to black, and with low lighting and a bit of editing, I was able to create the feeling for my next scene.