Editing Process

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Editing Process

A2 Documentary“7 – THE MAKING OF THE TEAM”

Final Cut Pro X

Original IntroductionAt the start of production we had delays on the filming of the footage as we had to place it on the designated training days for the players. We decided to create a draft introduction from the clips we caught on the first training session. For the piece we deiced to use royalty free music to not break copyright which meant we were limited to a minimal selection. Especially ones which fitted our piece as a sporting documentary. Our first choice of music was ‘High Energy Rock’

Final IntroductionOnce we gained feedback from our first draft we decided a voice over would be needed to introduce the documentary. Although the form is predominantly observational, this addition of the short voice over adds a narrative guidance to the piece and parts of a reflexive documentary. The into was a hard edit, from questionnaires we gained that a collection of fast paced montages would be effective. This meant a lot of cutting and editing clips into short almost jump edits and going through vast amounts of footage to find the right clips for the position and music.

First DraftWe created a first draft edit with the combination of all the shots at the time. This allowed us to see were we could take the documentary and what the final outcome would roughly be like. We decided we didn’t like the direction it was going so changed it for the final piece (below).

Title PagesOur first original plans implemented the use of a black out then quotes appearing on the screen as pause breaks between shots. After editing the clips together with the majority of our final clips we realised as a group that the technique didn’t fit with the direction we were going with for the piece.

TimingsAfter analysing a number of sporting documentaries we found many of them used dates and timings before each change of scene, placed on their establishing shot. Our first devised idea was to show the following of the Reeds team for a week, with each day being a different training method. However similar to the quotes as a group we thought this would be a good idea at first but after seeing the final product and showing our first draft to a small focus group the feedback was negative to both so we replaced it.

MusicWe used the editing process at first as a very experimental one. We looked at trying new things with the piece an gauging their effectiveness or more commonly their lack of. The original music in our first draft showed this as it didn’t fit the piece and the direction we wanted it to go.

InterviewsDue to the type of documentary we wanted to create the use of interviews from experts, coaches and players would be very effective. The best way to utilise an interview is to get a clip of the interviewee and then place relevant clips over the top, or in our case to play the audio below. We choose to keep the clip as a full so we could see who was being interviewed but we also detached the audio.