Evaluation

I am overall happy with my documentary as I felt that I did the best with the footage that I had. I also feel that I have stuck to my aims as much as possible and created an interesting presentation of Disability in the workplace through style and construction. However if I was to do the project again or another documentary I would be more prepared for the set backs and interaction with people. I have found it hard and mainly a set back having to rely on others.

Editing

Once the sound was fixed all I had left to do was decide if I should have sound in the opening shots or silence until the dialogue began.

SOUND!!!!

During this process it became apparent that my sound levels throughout were not level. The camera was picking up lots of the background sound even though I had filmed outside opening hours to avoid this. However what I had failed to do was take a wild track, this is when you film the surroundings for a minute so that you can then use this to settle sound levels. Mr Gibbs told me that there is a programme that can be used to level out all the sound. What I had to do was extract all of the sound from both interview and real time images into one soundtrack then export into this programme and level out the sound. This was such a relief as otherwise I would have had to either re-film or leave the sound the way it was.

Editing

Now that I have the two interviews I began to construct a firm narrative. As I mentioned earlier the fact that I had already written a script sped this process up as I knew the direction I wanted my narrative to follow.
When constructing John’s sections of the narrative I found that I was having to combine answers from each of the interviews in order to create a whole coherent answer. The problem with this was that visually it was jumping between his movements and was not only unrealistic but disorientating. I began to try find ways to cover up these sections. I put visual images in-between the jumps or over. This was a matter of trail and error that I would only fully see if successful once I extracted all audio from interviews where images where going over.
Before distracting the sound I ensured that the interview had a form narrative. The extracting of sound was along process as they had to be done individually as broken in sections. However once this was done I then had to move on to ensuring that the images and sound were in sequence. I had to tweak sound levels at end and beginning of clips so that sound was level.

Pro?

I have begun contemplating the option of transferring my footage and rough timeline into pro as this would allow me to have two video timelines. I feel that this will save me a lot of time as I would be able to simply place the video images over the interview narrative instead of having to extract the audio from the interview then placing it over the real time images. This would be a lengthily process.

However all the computers that have pro on them are occupied by other students. Although the simply solution would be to install the programme on my computer it isn’t compatible as we had the old programme that doesn’t work on MAC OSX system. Therefore this was no longer an option for me!

shot problems!

Editing

I went through the same process with john’s interview as I had done with Mikes. Titling the clips ect. However what I found with John’s interview is that the answers were not self- contained which meant I had to include my voice asking the questions or interpreting. This was extremely frustrating as goes against the style of doc that I had set out to make!