Post production: Editing stage
Once we had filmed our interview with Mr Lefroy, we had around 9 minutes worth of footage. We knew that the brief wanted a documentary lasting approximately 5 minutes, so the first thing we did was watch the interview back and cut different clips which were the most interesting to watch. We managed to narrow the footage down to around 3:50 minutes, as we knew this would increase once we added opening titles, closing titles. We chose to use Windows Movie Maker for the editing as we used iMovie for our AS, which proved to be very complicated and we could only use this on my iPad.
The next step was to extract the audio, in order to allow us to have cutaways throughout Mr Lefroys' interview. We did this using Windows Movie Maker. The next stage of editing was choosing the music for the documentary. We wanted something upbeat to start the documentary, and then something more subtle which could run throughout. The music we chose was copyright free, meaning it was very easy to simply download and edit to how we wanted it to fit.
The two pieces of music we used were:
After we had added the music and chosen the clips, we started to add the subtitles for introducing Mr Lefory, the title 'A Close Call for Britain', the question screens etc. At this point we also made the opening credits, which was an abundance of clips Katie had previously filmed in London. The closing credits was footage we found on YouTube and gained permission to use from the uploader. This clip, along with a clip from the House of Commons, were the only parts of pre-made footage that we used.
The last thing we did during editing was add the voiceover over the clips. We decided that the voiceover would sum up or support what Mr Lefroy was saying in that particular clip. We recorded them straight onto the documentary from Windows Move Maker, as we had difficulty getting recordings of our iPhones.
The whole editing process took us about 10 hours in total. We are very pleased with how well the forms and conventions were implemented and how we have stepped up from our AS task.
Post production: What would we change?
Although on the whole we were both happy with what we had produced, there were many things along the way which caused problems, and in the end we couldn't find a solution.
Perhaps the main thing was the fact that the microphone picked up a constant buzzing sound throughout the interview. We tried multiple times to remove this using Audacity and other audio software, but nothing seemed to remove the sound and it became something that we inevitably just accepted. However, when the documentary is played not on a laptop, the buzzing sound isn't that noticeable, especially with the music that we edited.
Another problem we had during editing was placing cutaways throughout the documentary. The process left audio moving and the clips becoming out of sync, no matter how many times we tried. We got one cutaway of a different camera angle to work, as it was very short and there was less audio needed to match up to it. We would have loved to use many more cutaway shots, as we filmed many different angles in our interview, but the process didn't work.
On the whole, the editing process went a lot smoother than at AS and I think that the documentary is a good representation of what we have learnt about the media and media products over the two years of studying this course.
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