Editing

During the editing process i have learnt how to use adobe premier properly as i had only touched on how to use it before. We layed lots of different sounds such as music and interviews played over the top. We have mostly used straight cuts between each shot however we have used some fades between shot to show the connections.

Liander and I spent lots of our free lessons editing and at first we had problems with the audio levels and getting the music the right sound so that interviews could still be heard over the top of the music. After we had figured out how to edit the sound levels on different parts of the music our next problem with the sound was getting all the sound at the same level all throughout the documentary which was hard because we had recorded in different places where the sound levels were different.

I collected most of the archive footage from the internet that we used in our documentary. We thought it was important to have archive footage, especially during an interview with elderly people to illustrate what they were saying. We also used a clip of the music video for Wham! - Last Christmas because it illustrates what someone else in the documentary says however the quality of this video was not good enough and therefore we had to find some different cutaways.

Here are some screen grabs of our editing work