Diary account Of Editing

I was working mainly on the interview because it was the main part of the documentary compared to the other sequences. We altered the interview with David and added other parts for example the stiloets to make it much more believable to the audience.

Editing the interview was much more easier this time because we had gained much more knowledge than the previous documentary that we had filmed with Naomi Raffington.

The knowledge and improvements that we had gained using the software were:

• The knowledge and improvements that we had gained using the software were:
• To be able to make a freeze frame (shift+n)
• Zoom in on a picture whilst the video is playing
• Make a sequence of David talking about what people think when the word “schizophrenia” comes to mind
• We were able to produce our own pictures from
• Tidy up the sound to make it easier for the audience to hear
• Change the text because before it was not visible

As we haven’t used the editing software on the computer for a while when we first started to edit it was only the basic that I knew and had to tell the rest of the group, but as we got future into it things started to come back to us and we were then able to edit to our highest abilities.

To make sure that we all took it in turns to edit and knew how two use the software we divided it into different sections that they would edit but talking to the rest of the group the whole time to make sure that we all agreed with what was being done.

As I designed the opening titles I asked the group if I could edit them. To do the edit the opening titles was tricky at first as there is many different layers to the video footage to add at the same time, after I got all the footage on the timeline I then started to add the footage onto the same screen as there would be three different moving video footage going on the screen at the same time. I then resized them and added a black background with white text to make them stand out.

 Then it was ready to add the music that I got from youtube videos and edited it to final cut and placed in in different areas that was needed.  I put in Adele someone like youb instrumental for the interview and for the opening sequence, I used AK beats. I used AK beats because its catchy and funky which makes it lively for the audience.


While we were adding we where always checking to see whether everything was relevant towards are target audience a prime example of this is the voxpops. As are target audience is mainly the older generation we had to make sure that the music reflected what the documentary was going to be all about and also some of the things weren’t suitable because of the storyline so the documentary would be after 9' oclock.