Editing

These are screenshots from Adobe Premiere Pro which show the editing process of our documentary.

This is a screenshot of our group capturing our footage from the video camera. We did this by pressing F5 in order to open a new workspace so that we could record our tapes onto the computer.

This is a screenshot of when we were editing our documentary, we created a series of vox pops by asking several people who were in Liverpool City Centre to answer a question. "Which celebrity has a your ideal body?" we cut our question out using the marker tools, so only the answer was heard.

We cut out the questions in the interview and edited it so that the viewer is only able to see the interviewee talking, to do this we used the razor tool. We used this tool so that we could be precise about the answer we wanted to use. So that we were able to avoid "jump cuts" in between questions, we created cutaways. The image below, is an example of a cutaway of a skin brand which we filmed in close up and then sped up by right clicking and increasing the speed/duration. In order to make our cutaways more interesting we filmed several skin brand names and cut them in a fast motion.

This shows our group rendering our production work as Adobe made our documentary run slower and jittery because it could not process all the actions we were asking it to do, but by rendering it Adobe makes all the actions flow together at once.

This is our first attempt of choosing graphics but we didn't feel that the red font colour would work with all the mise en scene in each of our interviews.

Due to that reason we then tried blue, but again it didn't look right with our production and the font was to bold.

We then thought that if we could put a bar behind the graphics we would be able to see the words more clearly, but our afterthought was that it looked tacky and wouldn't be age appropriate.

We then decided to choose purple as that was one of our favourite colours from our questionnaire, and we also decided that a skinny, and compact font would make our documentary appeal to a young audience.

However, we had the same problem as previous attempts whereby the you couldn't read the graphics clearly so in order to solve this problem we put a white outer stroke around the text so that it made the writing stand out. Also, in order to conform the codes and conventions of graphics we made sure our interviewers name was in a bigger font size than their occupation or relevant topic.

When we had finalised the editing for our documentary we then had to adjust the sound levels so they were at a constant -6 on the master levels we changed them by using key frames, thus allowing us to increase or decrease the volume on each clip. They were also useful for when we wanted to add music beds and vocieovers so each could be clearly heard throughout our production.

For our opening titles we knew we wanted a fast beat, however we could not decide which song we wanted our first song choice was "Tokyo" by The Wombats but we thought that this song was too slow. The next song we tried was "Fluorescent Adolescent" by Artic Monkeys but the tone of the song did not represent are target audience. The third song we tried was "Im not gonna teach your boyfriend" by Black Kids but it did not flow smoothly into the corresponding song. Due to these reasons we finally picked "One" by Swedish House Mafia because it fitted perfectly with the speed of our opening titles.

After picking our songs I realised that in order to use them we would have to have permission from the record company so I emailed them all, and these are the responses I got back: