Editing Diary

This is the start of our editing diary and how we edited the documentary, this is used as proof to show we actually edited the footage our selves, firstly we decided to capture most of the footage in big chunks and then cut it up and put it in the running order, once this was achieved we started to edit the documentary by using most transitions, fading and rotating the screen if there was an accidental canted angle.

For the editing of the actual documentary we used only Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, although we knew how to use it basically from last year, we had forgot a few things and through editing this piece of footage our skills on the software had improved.

Below is a screen shot of editing the Crewe professional footballer Joe Guest, it was about a 4 minute section in which we only used the best parts which totalled to around 2 minutes.

When editing this particular part of the documentary this was mainly the cutaways, we cut them all up firstly added a few effects and transitions and then faded the shots into the main interviews, we though fading would be a great idea as it would look smooth and so that the footage didn't just jump from stage to stage, the narration of the documentary helped for the footage to run smoothly as the cutaways were relevant to the topic that the narrator was talking about.

 

This small footage that was recorded of about a minutes length has no visual, just the audio was used as this was the radio advert, we first cut it up, added some sky sports news commentary in (relevant talk about transfer fees), and lastly added a backing track of music to capture the listeners mind and emerge them within the game of football.

When everything was practically complete we took all the clips that were in order played the documentary through to see if we noticed any errors and to find parts of the footage that we may want to change in the future, once we were happy with the order we arranged and left a certain amount of time empty for voxpops to fit into.

Last but not least we had to fit in the voxpops which we had made space for, by doing this we could easily slide them into there spots and preview the finished first 5 minutes of our documentary we had to make a few tweaks such as some fades weren't long enough and in certain areas the music was too loud so this had to be adjusted. Once this was complete we rendered the first 5 minutes.

After finishing the documentary we then moved onto completing a print advert for it, this was enjoyable to do as well and involved a lot of work with the computer, we had before hand took a couple of pictures of a football sat on top of a vast amount of fifty pound notes, this was great as it automatically showed what the documentary was about and contrasting football and money together, the way in which we gained the fifty pound notes was through research, we used Internet explorer to help us for this and we found the exact dimensions of the note, then found an image on google. put the picture into Photoshop CS5 and creating an exact fifty Pound note but it wasn't double sided we only had the queens head side. As we took a couple of pictures we had different shots and views of the ball, but came to a group decision on the picture we used.

For the printed advert we used Photoshop CS5 which I had no experience of but Matt had some experience with it but not much, we had some assistance and guidance but after a few sessions on photo shop the whole group could use the program rather well and we could add some quite advanced effects to the image.

In this first screen shot we basically broadened the colours of the ball, grass and redness of the fifty pound notes, we thought this was a grand idea and which would capture passers by eyes and grasp there thought and this could potentially lead to them finding out more on the documentary and even view it.

Before we even started the print advert within the planning stages of the documentary we already knew it was going to be aired on channel 4 and we also knew it would be stupid not to have the channel 4 logo on the advert as no one would know where to find it, we placed the logo on a separate layer in photshop to the main image so then we could freely edit that one logo and not interfere with the effects, we settled on having the logo on the right hand side as this followed the channel 4 house style by always having it on the right hand side.

After placing the logo, we then thought it would look good in black and white as this could have possibly contrasted wages from when football first started but with the fifty pound notes placed conflicted with modern football and how there is so much money within it.We changed it to black and white by pressing alt + ctrl + shit + B all at this same time as this changed it into black and white.

After the black and white was applied we wanted the redness of the fifty pound notes to stand out and be broad, this was done by masks and colour changes on different layers, this was a great effect and when put correctly into place looked amazing as red is a very strong colour and can catch the eye of anyone even if they haven't seen the actual main picture first which would deliver to the audience the main topic of the programme.

Once we were happy with the overall look of the advert and it suited well with our documentary we started to add the titles to it, which was rather easy we used a website called http://www.dafont.com/ which is a website where you can download different fonts, we scrolled through hundreds of them and found the one which we used called "Birth Of A Hero", it looked great and was interesting in the way in which is looked. As well as this we slightly adjusted the channel 4 logo positioning directly into the bottom right hand side corner.

Finally we added to the titles which was a date and time we had created in the planning stages of the documentary we also continued to use the channel 4 housing style in which the text is black surrounded by a white background we achieved this by using a different layer and then added two different sized rectangles to perfectly surround the text. The printed advert was complete and we exported it in a few different files types such as .PNG and .JPEG.

Last but not least was the radio advert in which we used a friend to read the script of the radio advert we recorded him with the Canon PM3 camera attached with a boom microphone to get the clearest possible voice over.

This small footage that was recorded of about a minutes length has no visual, just the audio was used as this was the radio advert, we first cut it up, added some sky sports news commentary in (relevant talk about transfer fees), and lastly added a backing track of music to capture the listeners mind and emerge them within the game of football.

The editing was complete.