Editing Diary

I also kept track of my group's progress during the editing process.

• We began by creating a project on professional video software Adobe Premiere Pro called 'Takeaways'.
• We then captured all of the footage from the tape and arranged them on the timeline.
• We then gave the clips titles so that we would be able to identify them at a glance.
• We watched each clip and chose which was the best take for each one based off the sound and image quality.
• Once we had chosen the best take we edited them down, cutting any un-needed footage off the start and end of the clips and made a note of the timings on our edit decision list.
• After every shot was picked and named we arranged them into a rough cut on the timeline in order.
• We then added graphics for the opening titles and also titles for people when they are introduced. 
• We arranged the cutaways in a logical manner so that they were to be placed around a clip that they related to.
• We found that we had an issue that we were running low on clips for use as cutaways. As a result, we decided to use archive footage by downloading footage from the internet of things such as television adverts.
• We then edited these clips and placed them appropriately on the timeline.
• We also removed some of the less satisfactory cutaways and replaced them with archive footage when it was deemed more relevant. 
• We began editing the sound, still on Adobe Premiere Pro, once we were satisfied enough with the actual video.
• We changed the sound levels for interviews to remove background sound and to make the speaker as clear as possible. We also removed any sound from shots like cutaways as it would not be needed and helped clean up the timeline.
• We found a song to use for the music bed "Eat It" by 'Weird Al' Jankovic and inserted it into the documentary, fading it in and out when needed (for example, we faded it out completely during interviews) and sometimes creating a loop with the riff to go underneath some clips.
• We made sure that sound transitions were smooth and edited the opening sequence so that the images synchronised with the drum beat as a match on action.
• Once we felt that our documentary was almost finished, we scripted the narration and uploaded it to our blogs.
• We recorded the voice-over and inserted it into the designated spaces that we had reserved on the timeline for it. In some cases the speech had to be edited or parts had to be removed so that it would fit in properly. 
• We checked through the documentary and got other's feedback. We made a few last changes to the sound and rearranged a few clips before exporting the video as an AVI file.

Blue screen editing was done in Adobe Premiere Pro, using the 'chroma key' tool in the 'video effects'.

We had a problem with having too much on the timeline at once - if I were to do this again I would be sure to keep all the clips and footage more carefully organised.

All of our documentary editing was done on Adobe Premier Pro, including the sound.

We planned in advance for the inclusion of the narration by leaving spaces on the timeline in the audio.

During the editing process I was sure to keep my editing diary up to date along with other documents such as the edit decision list being included on my blog. 

Edit Decision List

Using our logging sheets, we were able to go through our footage and decide how and what was going to be edited. We went through our footage and made notes of where about in the footage the different clips were and made notes of them on the edit decision list so that we would be able to find and edit them efficiently.  

Copyright Issues

Emails that were sent to recieve Copyright permission:

To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to you to request copyright permission for our student documentary which we would like to include  short segment of Eat It - "Weird Al" Yankovic, this video will only be shown to the exam board and will not gain any financial profit. Thank you.

A2 Media Students at Priestley College; Sophie Riley, Daniel Orr, Robert Young and Samuel Taylor




To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to you to request copyright permission for our student documentary which we would like to include  short segment of a Just Eat advertisment, this video will only be shown to the exam board and will not gain any financial profit. Thank you.

A2 Media Students at Priestley College; Sophie Riley, Daniel Orr, Robert Young and Samuel Taylor




To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to you to request copyright permission for our student documentary which we would like to include  short segment of a Burger King advertisment, this video will only be shown to the exam board and will not gain any financial profit. Thank you.

A2 Media Students at Priestley College; Sophie Riley, Daniel Orr, Robert Young and Samuel Taylor

Logging Sheets

We logged all of our footage and filled out the logging sheets in order to make note of where about in the footage each clip was so that we would be able to find it easily, what was contained in the clip, how long it was and whether it was a good take or not. This allowed us to keep track of all of the footage that we had shot with a reminder of what the shot was like, and allowed us to easily see whether the shot was worth using or not.