Diary

After filming all of our interviews and cutaways which we needed for our documentary we then started editing.
1st November
We Begun our editing process this week by capturing the tape on to Adobe Premier. Whilst this was happening we split the tasks up within our group and one of us did the logging sheets at the same time.
5th November
We started our editing process in this lesson. We listened to advice which was given to us, that was to begin our documentary with Janet showing how to make the perfect cup of tea. This started our documentary on a light note and clearly shows the audience what our documentary is about from the very beginning.

8th November
We continued to edit the beginning today and started editing our opening titles. We filmed this using stop motion by moving a tea bag and then filming for a second. However, when reviewing the footage you can see some movement in the corner of the screen so we had to zoom in to stop this from being visible.


9th November
We edited parts of the vox pops in this lesson and we used them saying what brand of tea they like to drink. We put all of these together and realised that this would be good for our radio advert.
10th November
We edited the part where the voiceover talks about tea being a British tradition in this lesson and used parts of the voxpops and used some still images also to enforce what the voiceover was saying. Whilst we were editing another person in our group would script the voiceover so that we knew how long to leave for the information to be said at a comfortable pace.
11th November
I stayed after college for a while to edit more of the documentary today. I used some still images which will be used for when the voiceover informs the audience that Turkey is the biggest tea drinking country. To back up this point I got footage from our voxpops where they react to being told this. I also edited the second part of Janet showing how to make the perfect cup of tea. It became evident at this point that we would have to make cuts because our footage would run over five minutes.

15th November
Today We edited more footage for the voiceover to talk over about tea being a social drink. After this we used more footage of our voxpops saying their opinion of tea being a social drink. To go along with this point we started editing the next part of our documentary which was our interview with a sociologist. We did this interview in front of a blue screen so we added in a tea related background using the effect controlls.


16th November
I finished editing the first of our interviews with a sociology teacher. We also edited the cafe owner interview using cutaways which we had taken previously. The final part of editing which I did today was the interview with our elderly person Annette Wright. This interview also had to be adjusted because we used a background and the wall was visible at one side.

17th November
Today I begun editing the interview we had with our young tea drinker, Christian Birchall. It was in this lesson when I had the idea to cut between this interview and the one with Annette to clearly show a generation gap between the ages. When I got home I found some music which we could use for all parts of our documentary and some archive footage of tea being mentioned in soaps
18th November
I added in the archive footage from Coronation Street and Emmerdale and edited the interview with the tea room manager.

19th November
Today i added in the music to the documentary so that there is a constant music bed throughout and then i faded it in and out at the correct times so that the voiceover could be herd.