Group Project - Editing

So the planning of the editing process begins. We have been looking through the clips and deciding which interviewees off the best answers for the contributors, which was a harder process than we though it would be in the first place. We had to overcome many problems and issues throughout the editing process, which lead to productive group debates and ideas.



One particular case was involving a man who was almost deaf, and seemed to slur his words when answering our questions; however, he gave very good answers. We also thought that this made him stand out more on tape, compared to the average interviewee, but the main concern was the way her slurred his words. So we though one option would be to subtitle his words during the interview.



One thing we all noticed during the editing process, was that only having one camera available, meant that all different shots had to be taken during the interview. We included long shots, mid shots and close up’s – depending on what the contributor was talking about e.g. a close up if they are speaking about something emotional. This meant that there are a lot of zoom in and out during the interviews. This meant we had to insert cut-away shots for each time this happened.



We had to make sure the structure was correct, and we were going to use a voiceover to introduce the film in general at the start, along with introducing each interviewee, and the conclusion at the end of the film. So we had to plan how we were going to use the voice over, and what cut-away shots would work well to accompany the voiceover. Bearing in mind the voice over had to be short and sweet to allow the most interviews included in the final product, at there is a time band of 4-8 minutes. All the editing will be done using Final Cut Pro.