Monday, 17 February 2014

Documentary Rough Cut

The progression from our assembly to rough cut was a very big step as we only just obtained all the footage by this point so we basically had to start over again, using some of the sequences we created in the assembly and carry them over.
Rough cut/assembly shown last week
We improved this rough cut/assembly we showed in the last seminar by adding in more footage, and trimming down all the bits that were boring, went on too long and overall just cleared everything up a bit.
Almost finished Rough Cut
We added a more clear and entertaining structure as well that fit well with the continuity of different interviews, as well as transporting the audience from one location to the next smoothly and without jarring cuts.
After constructing the narrative and order of the clips, we began to focus on replacing the camera sound with the proper separately recorded audio and start to lip sync the interviews and add fades and music over the top where appropriate. We also discovered that you could get sound waves visible on the tracks which really aided our syncing process.
Sound layering and sound design

Bringing up sound waves to help syncing
Lip syncing Addie's interviews
Adding fades to sound

Trimming off unwanted sound
Finally we were left with a solid rough cut sequence that we were happy with. Both Jay and myself are happy with the narrative direction, beginning and end as well as the middle sequence, and so hopefully there will only be a few minor details we will need to change in the fine cut.
Final rough cut, with sound

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