I have finished my editing today, I had a few things to do before it was complete.

The first thing I had to do was put the shot I got of the ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ gates of Anfield Stadium from Creative Commons, I spoke about Creative Commons yesterday when I realised I would have to get a shot of the gates when the voiceover mentions the quote.

It was a still image of the gates so I edited it a little by using ken burns and moving the crosses which are the points by putting the green one in the middle then dragging the red one up so that the shot moves rather than being a still image. This edit will make my shot move and zoom further into the gate and it moves up, it looks like I have shot a zoom pan up shot of the gates.

I was meant to have the voiceover part for the art in the city at the end but the whole video ended up being too long so I left the art part and I decided to add the ending of Frank’s interview summarising Liverpool. This idea changes my whole idea that I spoke about in my Documentary idea – visme from the beginning which was to talk about music, football then art but I had decided that it was too long and there was well enough on the music and football and still gave the audience an insight to what the culture is like in Liverpool.

I used this part of Frank’s interview because he’s smiling and he was clearly happy boasting about the city. I watched the whole interview and marked the parts I wanted and put it on the timeline. I decided not to put any cutaways over it because he is smiling and looks proud when he is talking and I want the audience to feel the same when they watch his part.

I put the last part of his interview at the end, I knew to put this part in it because of the Transcript – Frank Interview I wrote for this part. I knew I wanted this when I interviewed him.

I then put the audio in which was the song that I chose out of the selection he gave me and I downloaded it online and put into my project. Today, I have put  it into my timeline after all the audio was in and all the cutaways were in place. When I listened to the song again, I remembered that I said earlier on in my Sorting soundtrack blog, I said that I would put the instrumental part that is towards the end of the song, I would use it in the introduction which I did when it was put into the timeline. I put the music in the introduction and lowered the volume when the voiceover comes in, I did this so that the music doesn’t clash with the voiceover when it comes in. The music then stops when the Frank interview comes in and then appears again when the voiceover comes back in. Then after Frank’s part the music comes back in loud when I edited the credits in at the end.

I had a rough idea when I was putting in the audio and soundtrack from when I did my Soundtrack and Audio plan sheet so I knew where and when my audio came in. I didn’t stick to it exactly because I created it before I had started editing but I had an idea because of the length of the production I had in my head when I was filling it in. It wasn’t too far off.

The last thing I had to do once everything was in place was the the volume of the audio right the way through so I started with the introduction. The volume varied right throughout the whole thing because the microphones were all in different places where they were either closer to their mouths and some weren’t. For example, my grandad’s interview, the microphone closer to his mouth and in Paul’s interview, the microphone is further away from his mouth because its further down his shirt unlike in my grandad’s where his is on the collar of his t-shirt. In the images, you can see where the volumes vary and are at different volumes because some are higher and some are lower. This includes the voiceover as well as the interviews.

After all my clips were in, I edited my title in which was a basic fade in fade out. I put it at the very beginning with a blank screen then I added a fade transition so that the title faded into the first shot which was a long shot of the whole of the city. I used it at the beginning of the whole product so that the audience knew what the documentary will be about.

 

The end credits, I used the classic scrolling style that is used at the end of films and documentaries. I used it at the end and listed the contributors and who directed, produced and edited the product, this lets the audience know who was in it and who it was made by. This style of end credits is used in most films and documentaries. I put these credits straight after Frank stops speaking when the music fades back in that has played throughout the documentary so that its not in silent.

 

 

To export my work, I clicked on the share button at the top right of the software and clicked on Apple devices 1080p and then I checked the settings so the format was video and audio. Then I saved it to my library and then saved it on to my pen drive ready to send it and upload it to the platforms.

   

 

 

 

Today, I continued with my editing. I didn’t have a lot to do because I just had to finish editing my cutaways and downloading my soundtrack onto Final Cut Pro.

I had the pictures I got from my grandad in a photo album which fitted perfect with what he says like when he use to go out to town on nights out so I put them into the timeline on his interview so the viewers got an idea of what it was like when he use to go out when he was younger. As well as his pictures, I used shots I got myself from when I went into town and got some shots on Mathew Street and same for when he speaks about the football, I have shots of both the Everton and Liverpool football grounds with the logos on.

These cutaways are put together so they all flow together and I did this on purpose so that I am sticking to the continuity notion which is the basis of the classic narrative structure which helps tell the story to the audience and give them more of an idea. The Transcript – Grandad interview helped me with putting the cutaways into it and where about they will go at what times.

I continued to edit all the cutaways I got for the football part and put it into the timeline, I didn’t use any archive, I just used my own footage so that there are no chances of my work being taken down as I have had all the other footage and audio approved from the owners, this is mentioned in my Legal and ethical constraints. I used one image from the Creative Commons website which was the gates of Anfield Stadium that says ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ which I need to put onto my timeline tomorrow but I didn’t need permission for it because it was from a copyright free website.

Today, I continued editing my documentary. I started putting my cutaways over the voiceover and the interviews. The first thing I did was put the images I scanned last night and put them onto the timeline on top of the interview. I used photos that my grandad gave to me over his interview, I got his permission to use his archive footage in my work, I explain this in my Copyright Considerations about how I am getting my permission for my archive footage.

I then got my cutaways for the voiceover when it was introducing the music part in the documentary after my grandad’s part so I was editing in order. I cut the blank space up so that I knew how long I wanted each cutaway and where about I wanted them to go. I used the shots I got when I filmed around Mathew Street and when I filmed inside the pubs on that street like the Cavern Pub. I created a shot list for this day when I went out filming but I ended up filming in places that wasn’t originally on the shot list, like I went into the Cavern Pub on Mathew Street, Mathew Street was on my list but I got more shots because I have the voiceover for the music part as well as Paul’s interview, I spoke about this in Shot list for filming cutaways.

As I was editing the cutaways into my voiceover for the music part, I reversed my clip because it goes out of focus at the end so I changed it round so that the focus is at the beginning of the clip because they clip before that one doesn’t focus until there end so that so I wanted the clips to look like they go from focusing out to focusing in, this is called a pull focus and a technique used in cinematography. I focused out on purpose when filming because I wanted a range of shots and techniques and filming. I did this by taking the camera out of auto focus and putting it into manual and did a focus pull with the lense using the DSLR and changing it that way.

 

After I had edited all of the cutaways for the voiceover for the music part, I got to the part where the voiceover introduces Paul, the musician and I go straight into his interview so when introducing him, I dragged his interview further but I bladed it before he begins to speak. I did this so that the interview doesn’t have any cutaways that I can’t cover and so that the audience can see what the interviewee looks like. I faded the sound in when he begins to speak because it goes from the voiceover and when I put the music in with it so that when he speaks it comes in nicely.

I spoke to Paul who gave me permission to use one of his original songs as the soundtrack throughout, I showed my proof of the communication between us in Sorting soundtrack.