The first thing we did in the editing process was capture out footage and use logging sheets to write down each shot and whether we thought it to be useful or not. One of tapes was damaged by accident and as a result we lost a couple of shots but this didn't effect our five minutes. The interview with the police man was also lost due to school network problems but we found it after two weeks and proceeded to use it. The capturing process was finally finished and we were ready to begin editing.
We began editing our programme in chronological order and trying as best to follow our running order.There were a few changes made from the running order for example the spinning shot in the graffiti studio wasn't used as it wasn't what we were expecting to find. Also the interview was supposed to be with Michael Hoey, however this later was changed to Matthew Vaughn another graffiti artist.
Choosing the shots we wanted to use was fairly easy because we set out to film especially for our running order and so we didn't have any problems with the amount of footage. Shots of graffiti were used for the first 3 main parts of the programme as cutaways, background of the chromakey and actuallity footage.
We used three different effects in our documentary, these were fades, to make pictures look more interesting, dissolves for the same reason and a black and white effect to make graffiti artists at work look more dramatic.
The most difficult part of the editing process was perfecting the chromakey. Choosing the shots and cutting out the questions and choosing cutaways was easy but when applying the shots the background it became complicated. This was because the clips had to be perfectly inline with the end of the question. We managed to get everything in line after a few attempts.
After we had completed the five minutes and set up the timeline we added in the graphicd for our interviews. In order to follow convention we used a white font and the name was bigger than the person's relation to the subject.
One of the final things we did was edit our opening titles because we couldn't decide properly as a group. We sped up parts of it in order to fit the sound track and scanned in an image of our title in graffiti which we edited in photoshop as slightly dissolved in order to see the brick work through.
The final thing we did in the editing process was add the music tracks to our five minutes. Jon brought the tracks in recorded from home and we chose the final tracks we would use. Adding them was fairly simple and getting the sound levels right was quite easy. We used the keyframes tool on 'Premiere' to fade the song down at points, when we added in our voiceover and also at the end of shots.
We recorded the voice over in the radio studio and then had to increase the audio gain to make it sound better, overall it was an easy process and quickly done.
The editing process went well overall and was enjoyable, any problems we came accross were fixed.
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