Editing: day 14

Today we cut down Steve's and Richard's interviews so that we would have more time available to fit the voiceover in.
We also arranged a time to film the rest of the cutaways.

Editing: day 13

Today we continued to edit the documentary in lesson according to Mark's feedback, and began to plan when we are going to film more cutaways.

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Feedback & Editing: day 12

Today Mark watched our documentary and gave us feedback on what went well and what still needs to be improved. After receiving the feedback we implemented it for the rest of the lesson.

Editing: day 11

Today Lewis and I added a backing track to some of the interviews and double checked all of the interviews to make sure that they made sense and had relevant cutaways over every cut. We also changed the font of the documentary name that shows at the end of the opening titles and changed the duration of the opening montage so that it worked well with the sound bed.

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Editing: day 10

Today we are adding graphics to the interviews and continuing to cut down the interview footage as to make sure that none of them have any answers that don't make sense without the question and that the whole interview flows nicely.

I stayed behind after college to continue to cut down the interview footage so that overall the documentary (without voiceover) was under 5 minutes. I also changed the cutaways so that they weren't overdone and the ones that had poor camerawork or weren't relevant.

Editing: day 9

Today we started by editing down the montage at the beginning of the documentary so that it only takes up the amount of time planned on the logging sheet. We then moved on to cutting down the Frailers interview and replacing some of the cutaways/re-ordering them.

Lewis stayed behind after the lesson to continue editing and managed to cut the overall documentary down to just over 5 minutes.

Editing: day 8

Today we looked over our whole documentary and decided what needed to be refilmed. We booked out a camera so that over the weekend we could film some extra cutaways and more vox pops, as some of our original vox pops were unusable.
Other than that we just continued to cut down Andrew Will's interview and attempt to fix the sound of the Frailers interview.

Uploading footage & editing: day 7

Today we uploaded the interview footage from the second Frailers interview. However, we found that we had the same problem with the audio as we had on the first interview. Because the answers given on the second interview weren't as good as the ones we were given the first time, we decided to just work on fixing the audio of the original interview.

Refilming Frailers interview

As our first attempt at filming the interview with Frailers had a problem with the audio, myself and Amy went to Frailers to redo the interview. While there we also filmed some more cutaways.

Editing: day 6 & Feedback

Today Mark gave us our feedback on our work so far. We will need to

• Cut down on amount of cutaways
• Get rid of archive footage
• Redo interview with Frailers
• Possibly redo opening titles
• Get rid of some of the current vox pops and film some more
• Cut down all interviews as they are all too long

We continued to edit our documentary, keeping this feedback in mind.

Calling Frailers to reschedule

After emailing Frailers we decided to call them up to reschedule rather than waiting for a reply. We have now arranged to redo the interview with Frank on Monday the 11th of January.

Emailing Frailers again

We've decided to redo our interview with the manager from Frailers Guitar & Banjo Shop as the sound quality is very noticeably poorer than the other interviews, so today we emailed him asking if we'd be able to come back.

 

Redoing editing & opening titles

After doing a rough version of our opening titles before Christmas, we know knew what we wanted to do and how we were going to do it. So today myself and Lewis set up a camera and guitar and took the pictures for the stopmotion.

While we were doing this, Amy was redoing some of the editing we did before Christmas, as it was not saved properly and we lost a lot of the work we had done.