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1. P O S T - P R O D U C T I O N
D I A R Y
B 2 – S U N D E R L A N D D O C U M E N T A R Y

2. E D I T I N G ( I N I T I A L
E D I T )
• Before I made my final edit, where I added in all the graphics and such, I
made an initial edit which consisted of just the raw footage straight from
the camera. As it was such a large file (approximately 1hr 45mins) I
needed to remove any parts where I stuttered or messed up a line before I
could even think of adding graphics to the edit. I started by lowering the
resolution of the video so it was easier to work with and wouldn’t over-
stress my PC, I then imported the files into premier pro and trimming out
any unnecessary parts or stuttered/incomplete speech. To keep track of
which part of the script I was editing, I used the markers along the timeline
and labelled them by giving them sub-headings, I also used an alternating
colour scheme of red and white to make them look more separated from
each other. When editing, I encountered no problems other than physical
exhaustion once again. When I finished the initial edit, I rendered and
exported it and created a new project in premiere pro, this would be my
final edit of my documentary.

3. S E C O N D E D I T A N D
T H E G R A P H I C S
• The second edit took about a week of on and off editing to
complete, I started by importing the initial edit into premier pro. I
inserted my new and improved intro into the video by using the
same method of creating it in a different project and exporting it
into the final edit. For most of the graphics I used a third-party
extension called ‘Mister Horse’ which gave me access to a
collection of ready-made and easy to use graphics that I could
use for my video transitions, It also gave me a selection of sound
effects to use, which I added into my video in great numbers. For
a few of the inserted clips (the Gus Poyet interview for example)
I used some of the other ‘Mister Horse’ transitions, such as the
‘fade to black’ ‘light leak’ and ‘zoom in/out’ I found that these did
a good job at masking the cut between my video and the
inserted clip, it also seemed to add a level of production quality.

4. S E C O N D E D I T A N D
G R A P H I C S ( PA G E 2 )
• The first graphic was a transition screen wipe from the bottom left corner to
the top right, initially the graphic was orange and red, but I changed it to red
and white to match the Sunderland theme. The second type of graphic was
the title graphics that I used between the seasons, I made this graphic myself
by taking a video from YouTube by screen recording it, then I blurred it using
the premiere pro ‘blur and sharpen’ tool which made the text on screen stand
out. The fort I used for the text was bold and all caps, a font which I deemed
to be fitting of the theme; I used white text with a thin black stroke and made
it medium size text. For the pop-up graphics that I used in the middle of the
long monologues, I used the ‘Mister Horse’ SFX to punctuate their
appearance on screen, I think this had a great effect and made it seem less
jarring than if it were to just pop up unnaturally. I sourced all the photos that I
used from google, I saved them into a file and imported them directly into
premiere pro and I never experienced an issue using this method. I used the
same method for the graphics that fade in and out of the video, except I used
the default premiere pro transition rather than the sound effect as I wanted to
introduce them more gradually inro the frame rather than popping in and out.

5. E X P O R T I N G A N D U P L O A D I N G I S S U E S
( C O P Y W R I G H T )
• When I was finished with my edit, I once again rendered and exported my work
and attempted to upload it to YouTube. I encountered no problems in the
rendering and exporting stage as I was able to get both done without issue
(despite it taking over an hour) however, when I uploaded my video to YouTube,
I found that it had been copywrite stricken by the EFL and Sky sports YouTube
accounts alongside others undoubtedly. Besides changing my whole
documentary, I haven't yet found a solution to this problem, I tried adding a
watermark in bottom right of the video, but this didn’t work so I am planning on
uploading it to a different platform which I have yet to decide on.

6. E X P E R I M E N TAT I O N D U R I N G E D I T I N G
• During the editing process I used a software extension called Mister Horse which gave me access to
different transitions and sound effects for premiere pro, this made it easier for me to experiment with my
video and change different parts of it to make it more like what I envisioned. My first experimentation
was with the colour of the transitions, at first, I used an orange and red colour scheme for the transition
between video segments but eventually, I changed it to red and white to fit the SAFC theme as the club
play in red and white so I thought that this colour scheme would suit it better. Another part that I
experimented with was the audio effects, whenever images pop up on screen, they are punctuated with
a sound effect from Mister Horse but during the editing process I changed which sound effects I used.
The different sound effects where sounds such as a wine glass clinking, which sounded like a ding
when the images popped up, a clicking sound and tapping sound. I tested all these sounds before I
eventually landed on the ones that made it into my documentary. The final bit of experimentation I did
during the editing process was the music that I used during the transitions between video segments. My
choice of music throughout the whole video was intentional and I made sure every song related to the
club in some way however, I did have difficulty choosing which songs I wanted to use, for example
during the intro I used the song ‘Dance of the Knights’ as it is the song that plays before the players
walk out of the tunnel at the Stadium of light but originally, I was going to use the Z-cars theme song as
this was a song played at Roker Park when the players where coming out and is still I commonly used
song throughout English football, I thought that this song would fit well as the intro is a montage of
Sunderland while they were playing at Roker park but I eventually decided on using ‘Dance of the
Knights’ as the documentary is about Sunderland in the 21st century and that is the song used today