The document provides details about the filmmaker's process for editing together audio and video clips from their documentary project. This involved merging externally recorded audio with video clips to sync them, selecting relevant audio segments, and cutting out unnecessary parts. Transitions like cross dissolves and expositional fades were used between clips and audio sources. Color corrections and effects helped improve clips, and related images or footage were inserted into scenes for context. The timeline was refined from a rough cut to a final cut by shortening or rearranging elements.

1. When filming my Documentary,
I recorded the audio externally
through a tie-clip microphone
as the camera audio was too
echo-y. Because of this, when
editing, I had to merge and
sync the audio with the clips. I
did this by selecting both the
clip and audio and right-clicked
and selected Merge Clips.
When merging the clips, I
removed the audio from the AV
clip due to the echo.
Before combining the audio with the clip, I selected
the in and out parts of the audio. When moving the
merged audio and video clip to the timeline
sequence, I selected the in and out points to avoid
having to further edit when the clip is in the
sequence.

2. When the audio has been merged, the
sequence often has parts that don’t have audio
and therefore use the cut tool to cut it out.
In one of the interview sections with Billie’s Mam, the external audio had a delay and
therefore the first few seconds of speech weren’t recorded. Because of this, I had to use
the camera audio for those few seconds. To make this less of a dramatic change in
audio, I used an Expositional Fade to fade into the external audiences.

3. When transitioning from interview sections and scenes, I
used a Cross Dissolve to make the transition less obvious and
more smooth.
To stop the interview sections from being one single clip, I
recorded the interview from a different angle, additionally, I
used a different camera shot – the camera shot in the main
interview is a mid shot, whereas in the secondary shot is a
close up. The lighting of the secondary shot wasn’t very good,
therefore I used a Black and White filter from the Image
Control in the Effects.After adding the effects into
the sequence, I render the
sequence so that Playback is
smooth.

4. When discussing bands that are associated with emo, I
edited album covers by those bands into the scene. In the
time that the album covers are being shown, I cut that
interview scene and placed it into a different layer and hid
that layer to create more focus on the album covers.

5. As the focus of the documentary is music fans and going to
concerts, I wanted the introduction to be a simple montage of
concert videos that I have took over the years. I selected
certain areas of these clips and made the montage. To go with
it, I used the song Rebel Rebel by David Bowie – I edited the
song down to a minute in order to be appropriate for an
introduction.
To start the documentary, I was originally going to use a
voiceover with statistics of teenage music consumption,
however, I felt that a voiceover wouldn’t fit in with the
documentary. Therefore I simply added a single statistic – had
the documentary been a full documentary and not the first 5
minutes, over the course of the documentary I would include
different statistics to create a transition between scenes.

6. As the last interview scene is about concerts, I wanted to
include a concert video from a Frnkiero And The
Cellabration show I went to.
This is the edited scene from my rough cut.
This is the scene from my final cut of the film. I
shortened the scene and also combined the
beginning of the audio with the interview.
Additionally, Billie went to an All Time Low
signing, so I went along to get footage of it to
add to this scene – However, no filming was
allowed at the event and I was only allowed to
take photographs which I then combined with
the concert footage.

7. This is the timeline/sequence from my rough cut.

8. This is the sequence/timeline of my final cut.

9. These are my export settings.