Friday 12th October 2012

       I arrived slightly earlier then everyone so I started off the editing by just separating some of the interviews between each other, as I noted yesterday Jamie said it would be better if we rearranged the interviews. Utilising the large farmer segment to large son segment and change it to shorter segments between to two and make the topic of the shots have some relevance. Also in this time I noted down how I think the structure of the documentary should go.

Re-written from notepad

Structure

• ·         Farmer intro
• ·         About the product they produce
• ·         Lead into new stock & pregnancy
• ·         Information on educational site
• ·         End with family business

Once Becky & Jordan arrived I showed them that and they both agreed that we would work towards this but may have to change depending if we have enough information on each topic.

Hardly anyone was in today we was able to work at a faster pace. Seeing as this was our original idea, we wanted it to look as professional as possible, which meant to have it at a decent enough length of footage. Before starting to properly edit we noted we had over six minutes of footage and that’s not including cutaways, so hopeful we would be able to roughly produce five minute documentary.

It was quite a simple and easy day, the difficult part was picking cutaways that would be suitable to the audience and fit in with the topic at hand. Half way through the day Jamie came in and informed that Becky had to leave later for a meeting so she got more hands on with the editing until then. Also he watched what we had done since yesterday and recommended two things, make some shots tighter (still a work in progress but understandable) &  Jamie believed we had better cutaways at use then some we had already on the timeline and advice us to change them.

This is one of the shots Jamie specifically mentioned, at this moment in time the farmer is talking about how much livestock he has and even though the next shot is of many goats, it should show many goats first.

Editing the farmer’s son interview was fairly difficult, we had to have a short production meeting on whether we can use the footage or not. The challenge was due mainly   to the ambient noises; there were a lot of noises coming from the rain, goats, tractor and other students. So there was a lot of cutting and adjusting audio to make it usable. Also the lighting was different from the farmer interview but we ended up deciding to use it.

 By the time Becky left there wasn’t much left to do, all we needed was to do the credits and get some audio of goats bleating at the beginning of the documentary seeing as there is no sound at all. I was hoping to have something soothing like birds tweeting but we thought it would be more appropriate to have goats. I eventually found a piece of audio to use where one goat bleats then three at the same time, it was like a rhythm they were making so I used that then added a fade so that it would flow smoothly into the interview.

For the ending we made it so that both shots of the farmer and son were smiling and it would fade to each other, meant to be representing the present to future seeing as the last part of the documentary is mentioning talking about taking over. We wanted both of them to be smiling but it was difficult to find one of the farmer smiling, this would have been caused by being nervous for the interview, so I watched a couple of other shots hoping to find a suitable one. I did find one with him making the fire but it wasn’t framed right and it seemed more appropriate to have a shot of him in the barn as the interview was in the barn.

We also added the effect to audio as we did to the first documentary, which is Fill Left. The final time of the documentary was 4.22

We showed Jamie the final product and he thought it was brilliant and I agree, our final piece truly reflect how I, Becky & Jordan work as a productive team, very professional. Also doing this work has showed me how I have improved over the last three years, in the first year I would have spent about six- eight weeks producing a piece of fine work and in altogether in a week we have created two pieces of work to a professional standard.

Shot list

• 200- establishing shot, Dolphinholme sign
• 085-farmer interview (FI) & title
• 094- three goats
• 095-single goat close up
• 099-2nd three goats
• 085-FI
• 161-son interview (SI) & title
• 098-Goats Eating
• 161-SI
• 108 - range of goats eating
• 085-FI
• 143-herding goats
• 147-scanning and spray
• 142-scanning close up
• 147-scanning and spray
• 141-scanning medium
• 161-SI
• 157-Goats group sprayed
• 087-baby goats
• 085-FI
• 059-Gost feeding off mum
• 085-FI
• 058-goat standing
• 085-FI
• 161-SI
• 085-FI
• 124-Yurts
• 224-Yurts long shot
• 085-FI
• 037-Richard Drawing
• 085-FI
• 161-SI
• 086-Farmer & Goat
• 161-SI
• 085-FI & title-Special Thanks
• Title 4- Direct
• Title 5-Produce
• Title 6-Editors
• Title 7-Camera
• Title 8-Sound

 This is a shot of the final sequence.

Aaron Dunleavy (fellow pupil) was viewing our piece and offered some advice on how to improve it, by adjusting the colour. He showed us how to make a shot warmer, by this I mean make it seem more attractive. He showed us two effects/filter s which would be able to help us make the images more attractive.

 

The first being the “three way colour corrector”, with this I can manual adjust the shadow, midtone & highlight. From left to right.

The second filter is the RGB tone filter, obviously I can edit the red, green and blue with this but the white line represents shadow and the highlight.

We plan on editing on Tuesday morning so that the interview segments lighting are the same and makes it warmer which makes it look more professional.

We ended the day by discussing on our next task which is the confessions, confessions are a simple task and we could finish that in no time. However we gave the task to Tim, as we didn’t want him to be unproductive and he said he had previous experience with editing so we assigned him to begin the editing for us and if we finished the documentaries in time we would work with him on that. We haven’t yet seen much of the footage but it is obvious that the majority need adjusting visually seeing as they are all blue. And we need to think on how to present them, I believe Tim has begun structuring them but I will have to see it myself.