A2 Media Editing Diary

1. Editing Diary
Week commencing 25th November
To begin with we put all of the footage which we had collected together so far in to premiere, to begin
putting our documentary together.

2. Then we went through our six hours of footage, selecting the sections with best camera angles
and also the best sound quality, also considering whether the shot was completely in focus and
of a high enough quality to use in our documentary.

3. Week commencing 2nd December
We then created a separate sequence for all of our good quality sections of filming so that it
was easier to see and more continent to begin putting out documentary together.

4. We then selected the best clips to create a 30 second montage to open our video, mainly
including our footage from the Basement Jaxx concert. For this section we also took care in
deciding on an audio track which would be suitable to run through this section, we wanted
something up beat and catchy so we selected, Larse, So Long.

5. Week commencing 9th December
Next we decided to import some achieve footage of one of our interviewee’s Ian Austin, into
both our opening sequence and as an introductory section to his interview. We found this
footage on YouTube and downloaded it from here.

6. To create our title for our
documentary, we used Adobe
Photoshop. Using a white
background and a cut out of our
title “produxions”, which we would
over lay on to our documentary
over some of our video footage.
We decided to over lay it on to our
achieve footage of Ian Austin, as he
would be our first interviewee in
the documentary. We cropped and
deleted certain sections of the
mask so that whilst playing the
documentary it would keep flashing
on the screen.

7. This is how the title appeared on screen, which we decided worked very well so we decided
that we would use this similarly later in our documentary to introduce each of our
interviewee’s.

8. Week commencing 16th December
We then inserted our footage of the first interviewee to appear in our documentary, this was
going to be Ian Austin. Once the footage was imported we selected the best sections of the
interview, cutting and moving the selected sections to start to piecing the main body of the
documentary together.

9. Similarly to making the title for
our documentary, we also used
photo shop to create our
banners. Using a white
background, and the same font
text as we had done previously.
This is some of the design steps
taken during the production of
our banner. We selected bright
colours as we thought it would
be relevant to our theme of
house music. We also put our
logo in the corner and created
a diagonal cut out to make it a
little bit more dynamic as this
style works best with our
documentary.
This banner will be updated
and used for each of our
interviewee’s.

10. We then imported the banner so that it would appear over the Ian Austin interview. Next we
need to reposition and resize the banner, so that it looks profession and artistic in our
documentary.

11. This is how the banner appears in our documentary, it will appear every
time that Ian Austin is on screen. We will use this in the same style for each
of our interviewees.
This is how the banner appears
in our timeline in premier.

12. Week commencing 30th December
Similary to how we created our title for our documentary, we used a similar style in creating the
introductions to each of our interviewees. Using a white background and a cut out of our their
names, which we would over lay on to our documentary over some of our video footage.
However, instead of using Photoshop, this time we used Adobe Fireworks.

13. We then imported the name mask of each interviewee so that it would appear over some
footage of them. Next we need to reposition and resize the mask, so that it covers the full
screen and looks profession and artistic in our documentary.

14. This is how the title appeared on screen, which we decided worked very well and matched our
title, so we decided that we would use this to introduce each of our interviewee’s.
This here demonstrated how e cropped and deleted certain sections of
the mask so that whilst playing the documentary it would keep flashing
on the screen to make it more artistic and relate to our theme more.

15. Week commencing 6th January
Continued editing our documentary, until we had the complete 5 minutes, using all of our
recorded footage banners and masks.

16. Week commencing 13th January
Now that we have the complete 5 minutes of our documentary, we began our
final editing section, were we added transitions and effect to make our
documentary flow better and present more professionally.
For example this slash slide transition, which we added to the banner.

17. These are just a few examples of the
effects we have used in our
documentary; including cross
dissolve, gradient, dip to white and
slash slide.
This effects bar is in
the bottom left hand
corner od premier
and it is here that all
effects are found. You
can either search for
an effect or find it in
the different folders
provided.

18. Our final part of final editing was focus on sound and
getting the sound levels correct.
To begin with we went through our different music
tracks ensuring that the volume dipped during an
interview, so that the interview speaker was
predominant, however still ensuring the sound could be
heard in the background.
This shows how we have achieved
this with our sound.
We then created several different audio tracks to place
each interview on so that we could continue our final
editing with the sound.

19. Finally, we began adjusting the sound levels and balancing them out so that they were perfectly
matched. We did this using the audio mixer in premier, here we can adjust each individual layar
of sound that is in our documentary seperatly.