Editing

The editing process took the longest, this was because in order for our documentary to look professional and sucessful we had to keep changing things and improving on other things. It was also the most challanging because we were required to use software that we was not extremely familiar with and so it took some getting used to, being Adobe Premiere.

Here are various screen grabs on the editing process, showing different editing techniques, that we were required to practise and include in our production.

This screen grab shows an editing technique most documentaries will use. By pressing F5 on the keyboard this screen will appear on Adobe premiere. Here you can add text (name of interviewee) change font style, size and colour of the text.

This screen grab is just a basic view of what it looks like to edit a production on Adobe premiere, as you can see there is a time line, a toolbar, a window for what will appear in the documentary (to the left hand side) and two windows to show what part of the documentary is being edited.

This screen grab shows one part of editing a docmentary by using the tool highlighted (the razor tool). This allows you to cut out (neatly) any part of the documentary you dont want from the timeline. For example, if on an interview the breathing pause seems too long then you can cut it out by using this tool to make it shorter.

This screen grab from our documentary shows how to edit music beds that will be included in the production. The highlighted section is the waves from the music. It has been selected from the left hand box and dragged into that (highlighted) window. By pressing (i) you can select where you want the music to start and by pressing (o) you can choose where you want the music to end. Therefore decideing how much of the music you want in the production. It is then dragged onto the main timeline, underneathe the chosen images.

This fifth screen grab shows were the music is positioned on the timeline after it has been editied in the above window. It is put underneathe the other sound clips (voiceovers etc) and video clips.

This final screen grab shows the different effects you can add to the video clips (shown in the left hand corner) some of these effects include, cross fade, dissolve, 3D motion etc. These effects make the video more effective and can help to fade one scene into another neatly.

Once all of the editing was (what we thought) complete, we gave it to our teacher to have a look at and discuss room for improvement.