Editing

During the editing process, we all came up with numerous ideas to make our documentary an outstanding piece of work.

We all worked together sharing our idea's and basically the editing process had a few issues, mainly becuase the computers would sometimes just shut down while your in the middle of doing something which results in loosing most of the stuff you just done.

The editing was done on Adobe Premier Pro which i am confident with using as i use the same programme in different subjects.

The capturing had to be done first which actually took a while as we had quite alot of footage. Some of the footage which we have used and also some of it we had to scrap as it wasn't good enough to be in the final edit due to: Shakey camera work, lack of audio etc. But once it was all caputred we had to cut it down into sections and order of how we want it to be featured in the documentary and obviously had to get rid of the stuff we wasn't going to use.

Once we soted out what we wanted to use we had to put it into order by following the running order.

Another problem was getting the archive footage for the documentary. We had various DVD's which we were going to use as the archieve footage such as: Hocus pocus, Halloween, Nightmare on elm street. We encounted problems as our archieve footage is mainly from dvd's and it's not exactly possible to edit the dvd's and get the footage we would like to use.

However to resolve the problem, we managed to find a website which allowes you to download video footage from youtube. On the other hand this encounted problems for example: Robyn was unable to do this as her laptop wouldn't allow it and i experienced the same problem. So Robyn ended up using a friends laptop to get the footage. On the other hand this helped us in many ways because we were able to find the exact scenes we wanted to use from the DVD's and download them and use them instantly for our archieve footage.

Their were some problems we encounted with downloading such as: Once we put the footage onto premier, and tried viewing it, it became distorted when it was originally in good quality. But in the end we did manage to sort out what was happening and it happens to be the computer was messinbg up so it wasn't anything to do with the downloads.


Anyway then we started to cut up the Voxpops and sorted them all out so they would flow together. This has worked well as we got different people answering the same question and it all just fits together. We decided that these were going to be the opening of the documentary.

After the Voxpops I managed to find a pumpkin carving website. From this I carved out each letter of 'Halloween' and filmed it so it looked as if the letters were flashing up on the pumpkin for example: The 'H' was the first thing carved out then 'HA' then 'HAL' ect until it spelt out Halloween. We then captured this onto Adobe Premier and we edited it so it speeded up to 500% and then put a swirl effect onto it. This has been used after the Voxpops and will be featued as part of the opening.

The interviews have been edited with some cutaways to represent what they are talking about. However once we had edited the interviews we noticed that the Vicar's interview was echoey and quieter due to being in a conservatry which is an echoey place and the sociologists interview was louder due to being in a classroom. We sorted out the sound levels by using Adobe audition so they both matched the same level. Otherwise our documentary wouldn't really work for the audience as they would constantly be having to turn up the volume and then turning it down so now that the sound levels are the same this means the audience wouldn't need to touch their remote.

However most of the editing was done by Robyn, as she took over everything and hardly fedback to Me and Tom what was happening with the editing. On the other hand I felt that if Me or Tom edited something it all got changed becuase Robyn generally wouldn't be happy with what we have done. This made it difficult to working in a group as it was bound to happen that someone would take over and do things the way they wanted it. We did contribute ideas thought for example I contributed the idea of the Pumpkin carving website to have the word 'Halloween' carved into it because that's what our documentary is basically about. This worked effectively as it was animation which would make the documentary appeal to another target audience.

I have also worked on making a short film including the voiceclips of the questionnaire results this also had images in it which shown people being interview. For example Robyn asking me a question and also an image of a microphone to show that they were audio clips. However I had problems trying to upload this video as it just wouldn't work. I had to make a film as there is no way to upload audio clips onto the blog. This film when its finally uploading (If it works) will be featured on the questionnaire results page.

Tom had the role of working on the cut aways for the documentary and sorting out the clips from the films to use as archieve footage.

Overall the editing process has become slightly stressful due to technical problems and team work as we didn't feedback to eachother or anything and we all just had our own set roles. For example I sorted out the Radio Ad and Tom did the print Ad so Robyn just did all the editing.

The images below are screen grabs.



This is a screen grab of the editing taking place.



This is basically a photo of Me trying to make a video for the audio clips as we are unable to upload audio clips onto our blog. However this encounted many problems. The first video i made i used photograghs which were taken on halloween night at a halloween party of many peoples different costumes and also some of the halloween decorations. However this video wouldnt allow me to save it. Then i decided to make another one which basically had a plain black background with the questions flashing on screen that were being asked in the audio clips. This video couldn't be uploaded on to the blog for some random reason.

Therefore i decided to do some of the opening credits where i found a website were you are able to carve your own pumpink. Using this i typed every letter in halloween seperatly until it spelt out the full word and we are going to use this aswell as the video clip of Robyn and Tom carving out a pumpin.





This is the second video i tried making for the blog which contained the audio clips.



This is an image of Robyn editing while Tom is holding a microphone next to her to look as if he is interviewing her. This clip was going to be used in the audio video.







This is an image of Robyn editing.



This is an image of Robyn trying to interview me for the audio clips.




This is an image of Tom doing the time log sheet.




This is basically a screen grab.



This is a shot of Tom doing some editing.



This is a screen grab of the first Voxpop we did. This hasn't been used becuase the camera at the time was shakey.



This is a screen grab of the Vicar. It shows how the mise-en-scene was set up.





This is our documentary on the editing line.