Today, I started editing my documentary. The first thing I did was put all of the footage I got and put it onto the computer then onto Final Cut Pro. The first thing I did was watch them all then I began dragging the clips I got of around town and dragged them onto the timeline and this will be the montage played in the introduction and I will put the voiceover on it when it has been edited in. These techniques I use straight away shows the audience that this is an expository documentary because it starts with a montage which is one of the most popular techniques used in the expository mode, this is discussed in Expository Documentaries – Bill Nichols.
This gives me a rough idea of how long I want the montage and introduction. I have opened it with a pan shot of Liverpool so that the audience will know straight away that the documentary is set in Liverpool.
When I finished doing the montage at the beginning, I went straight onto Frank’s interview. I filmed his interview as a wide shot but I had to crop the right side of the interview and the top of his head. I had to crop the right side of the shot because there was too much room behind him and it looked like he didn’t have enough looking room on the left. I spoke about me having to do this when I come to editing after I filmed the interview in Interview with Frank 2.
There was too much head room so I cropped the top of his head. I cropped the right side by 453.7% because there was a lot I had to crop. The top of the shot I cropped by 140.0% and the bottom by 177.5%. I have had to crop the shot massively and move it around because it was shot in 4K and it is being edited in 1080p which means that I have more to choose from when it comes to editing, the shot is much bigger than what I use when it comes to editing, and it allows me to zoom. This had to be edited because the interview didn’t meet the conventions that I had discussed earlier on in this project in Idea Development – Interview and when I did my interview analysis in Interview analysis – Leaving Neverland.
I have started with Frank’s interview because I have decided that my documentary will be linear and will start with the history and him naming the most iconic attractions in Liverpool. I have spoke about how and why I have began editing my documentary in linear style in Documentary idea – visme. I spoke about my Narrative Structure which is linear style which was Frank at the beginning and opening on the most iconic attractions in Liverpool so that the audience already have an idea of what the documentary is about and what may be spoken about throughout it.
I wrote a Transcript – Frank Interview which was important so when it came to editing, I knew exactly what parts of the interview I was putting in to my timeline. This also helped me with what cutaways I used and where about I put them. His interview doesn’t last very long but the audience gets out what they need to know about the docks and the iconic attractions without any more information.
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