Editing, Part 1

With the project in Final Cut Pro set up ready for everyone to begin thier sections of the edit, i began editing the final section of the documentary.
 



Our producer had laid down a vague idea of how he wanted the ending to look: Showing a transition from the old hall to the new one, using glide track footage of the empty old hall to try and evoke an emotional response.




While looking through interviews with the residents of Thornham produced by the previous Level 3 Group, I came across an interview with a woman called Odile Castro. The way she phrased her thoughts, combined with her French accent and history with the village instantly struck a chord, so I cut a section of the interview to include in the edit.


To try and get the most impact from the shots we had, I decided to split the ending into two distinct sections. Rather than having the Vox Pop running over the footage of the hall, I concluded that keeping the footage of the hall as ambient as possible was the way to go, giving the audience a breif moment to reflect on the information presented to them in the documentary, following up with the Vox Pop to drive home one last point, and hem in the documentary.

The Shoot and Editing Set-Up

In the last post, I spoke about the shoot on Saturday 21st. This event was attended by parts of both Corporate teams, with full shooting equiptment.



Our crew, filming the ceremony at the Drill Hall

The reason for the moving of the shield is symbolic, showing a transition from the soon to be demolished Drill Hall, over 100 years in age, to the new Village Hall.

 




From the old...

...to the new




Attended by the residents of Thornham and the surrounding area, this a momentus occassion forms the latter part of our corporate documentary.

 

The following Monday, a few members of Spingboard TV went up in a two man plane to collect shots of the Thornham area. Although not attended by any of the current production teams (The camera operator going up had worked on the project the previous year), the footage is now available for us to use in our respective projects.

 



About to be skybound



 

Thornham Documentary: Prelimary Prep

On Tuesday, we split into two different groups to tackle our assigned corporate project.



 



Construction on the new hall

Our subject is a new village hall that is opening in the coastal village of Thornham. This new facillity is equipped for weddings, sports groups and numerous other functions. To be completed in October of this year, it will serve as a central point for the people of thornham to gather for functions.

 

This facility is to replace the drill hall, the old village hall erected in 1906. Deemed outdated and unsuitable for congregations by the local residents, this hall will be demolished after the new hall is finished.

 

 

 

 

In our group, I was assigned the job of lead editor. In this role, it was my job to oversee the transferal of all footage to our editing platform (A set of Macs linked by a server), and to bring the final piece together in Final Cut Pro.

 

But before that, we needed to work out the timetable we would be working to on the project. With a planned meeting with the client tentatively scheduled for the last week of term on the 22nd October, we sat down to consider what needed to be completed within that month.

Above is our estimated timetable for the project.

 

A previous group had already produced much of the footage we would be using in the edit, however the group will be shooting on the upcoming Saturday, as there is a ceremony to commemorate the old hall, as well as inaugerate the new one.

Introduction

Over the course of this unit, I will be using this Blog to waste time mashing the keyboard and hoping for results record and document my analysis of a number of different corporate pieces, as part of my Media Production Course.