Friday 19 November 2010

Editing: Making it 5 minutes

We had two lessons today where we edited the three interviews with Angie, Laura and Charlotte. We needed to make sure that the answers made sense. Because Laura repeated the questions more clearly on each answer, we used her as the first person to answer. Following, her answer would be one from Angie and then Charlotte. We found that Charlotte just simply answered the questions and didn't really repeat the questions. But as a group we feel that we altered the editing to make the interview make sense.

We continued with focusing on this 3-way interview, as we put in cutaways and deleted video footage so that the audio remained with archive or stockfootage for example. As a group we feel that this is the most creative interview because of the juxtaposition of the interviewees, answers and positioning. We positioned Angie to the left of the frame so that when Laura and Charlotte's interviews are wedged either side of her answers, the framing will switch and suggest that she is different compared to the other two, who are positioned to the right.

Charlotte and Laura are fairly new drivers, and Angie is the most experienced driver, we wanted to show this using cross-cutting between each shot.

We stayed behind after lesson to complete the 5 minutes, however when we went to piece the whole thing together. The Chris Kelly Interview's sound stopped working and so we have had to use the original-captured version and re-edit the interview including the cutaways.