Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Update on Filming and Editing

Filming and Editing James Cooper

We've recently filmed James cooper who will be the first person interviewed in our documentary once we have finished the editing. We told him what our documentary is about and what we have recently been filming and asked a few questions about his accident to get started.

We set the room up how we did with Lucine, so he sat in front of a white board with a bright light shining on him. He talked about his accident for around seven minutes with a few cuts between, where we asked a few questions.

After we had filmed this, we downloaded the flim onto the Mac Laptop into Final Cut Pro, a recent purchase to edit our documentary. We watched through the whole interview and every time we did this we would constantly split the clips up and take parts out which we didn't need or were sort of irrelevant. We kept watching over and cutting out film several times because our aim was to get James Coopers interview under three minutes. We edited James' interview quite a lot as we had to cut out nearly five minutes off, therefore, the diting pace is rather quick so we've fitted transitions inbetween cuts to create a smooth movement.

We finally cut the interview down to around two minutes and the footage is perfect. We have also taken a cut out and used it at the beginning of the Documentary to introduce what will come on later, almost like a flash of transitions of dramatic speech in the beginning.

We have created the beginning using Dawn the Police Officer, James Cooper, Lucine Sandiford, a young victim and we have yet to come some filming of cars driving in the dark and a point of view shot from inside a car to add to the beginning. We have used several transitions to create a fast paced move at the beginning and we have also have a very subtle sound track in the background playing as the people we interview talk.



What we have previously been filming



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