Editing: Further Corrections

These are screenshots of corrections we have made to our project.

We looked at making a car-part montage and a collaboration of shots of vechicles. This was in addition to the learner cat montage.

We have rearranged our documentary so it sort of follows a pattern of: VoxPop, montage, interview, montage, interview, montage.

Editing: Checking Work

We needed to check our work with our teacher, to look to see if anything needed to be changed. We have been advised to redo our VoxPop again because several of the answers are not great because the eyeline of the people is not right. However, we found that even though we positioned the interviewees in the right place, they looked all over the place even though we all stood on the opposite side to them.

Also, we have decided to alter our music bed so that they flow better and reflect the topic of our documentary. I have downloaded some new music using iTunes that we can use on our opening sequence.

We need to add a few cutaways into the 3-part interview so that the audio and video can be broken up more. As well as altering the order of the Chris Kelly interview. We will move the jingle to the beginning to introduce the interview and following this will be the jingle answer.

Also, as archive material we have used the video only out of this youtube clip to accompany the Chris Kelly jingle as well as a shot of the outside of his store.
http://video.yell.com/Media.aspx?key=6ADFB1E2D3CC33D6&type=video

Also, we filmed some more L plates and learner cars to make the montage at the beginning more effective and relevant to the topic of the documentary.

Taking the camera out, we decided to film in different angles, parts of a car including the sound of the engine revving. For example: window wipers, mirrors, wheels and radio.

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.

Editing: Neaten the Interviews

We neatened the interviews by altering sound levels and making sure each shot was cut at the right point. The music had to be adjusted and we took time to decide whether to use instrumentals or normal music for underneath the archive footage. We also had to double check the cutaways.

Editing: Interviews etc

I wasn't in the lesson because of a subject trip, but my group continued working on the Chris Kelly Interview. They cut the answers so that they were relevant to the cutaways they had refilmed and recaptured. Shots had to be cut preciscly to the second and they used video transitions such as cross-dissolve and dip to black to link the cutaways and footage.

Editing: The Chris Kelly Interview

The Chris Kelly is about five minutes just by itself. The first thing I did was cut out the interview questions, and cut out the part of the interview where the telephone rang. The majoirty of questions make sense on their own, but as a group we will have to agree on which questions will be used. I attempted to cut out the ringing noise in the background, and piecing together a sentence about his first and present car. However, it jumped too much, didn't look professional and was not suitable. I have kept in the first part of the answer but cut out the last bit.

The next step will be deciding the cutaways with my group so that the answers refer to something. My group decided that we should re-film and capture more footage of the Chris Kelly leaflets, archive material and instructor manual so that they will be effective cutaways between answers.

As one of our cutaways we may use the Chris Kelly jingle because we ask a direct question which includes him talking about why he chose that jingle. I have downloaded it off the Chris Kelly website, which you can see in the screenshots below.

Editing: The Beginning and VoxPop

We began editing this week. We have captured all of our work, and at the moment we do not think that there is anything else to film as of yet. We have realised that we will not be able to complete our editing just using lesson time, so as a result I have and will continue to take time out of my free periods, lunchtimes and breaktimes to do some small bits of editing. Hopefully my other group members will do so as well.



Following the edit decision list is helping a lot because the editing seems quicker when we can go straight to a section, using the cursor. This screenshot shows us skipping through stockfootage to find the motorway shots.







Unlinking audio and video lets us delete the sound of the shot so music can be used. We will wait until the final stages of filming to alter the sound levels in the interviews and VoxPop.






Using our mindmap from our planning, we have downloaded numerous sounds and sound effects for our opening sequence. This screenshot shows me importing a song.




We want to mess round with the transitions to see which ones suit the documentary and don't look unprofessional. We want to dissolve a clip of the gearstick with the title of the documentary as well as fading to a black background. These effects can be seen in this screenshot.




This is our editing page so far, with the VoxPop together, parts of stockfootage and the end of the title sequence. We need to tidy this up and then move on to the next 2 and half minutes of the documentary.