Editing Diary

• We began by opening up the program software, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

• Our group decided upon a project name "Tasty Takeaways".
• We used a deck to capture all of our footage we had filmed then assorted them with appropriate titles.

• We had to watch a clip to decide which parts of it we wanted to use and which parts we didn't. In all of our interviews, we cut out parts of the footage where the interviewer asks the questions. This is because it is against the codes and conventions of documentaries.

Cutting out the questions in our interviews.

• Once we did this we edited that specific shot to a precise timing of what is needed. Sometimes, parts of the answers which our subjects gave were irrelevant to the question. Therefore, these parts were cut out.
• After doing this with each shot we began to order the documentary on our timeline.

This photograph with me was taken when we were just beginning to order the documentary.

• We added titles to our opening sequence and interviews so each subject can be introduced to the audience. We were consistant by always using the same font. For our interviews, the name appeared on the top line and their relation to the exposition on the line below.

When we began adding titles to our documentary, we were indecisive as to what they should look like and the transitions in and out. 

• We included cutaways of takeaways and menus when they were relevant to what the interview subject was saying.
• Sometimes, we did not film enough footage that was relevent to what the interviewee was saying. Therefore, we needed to take some archive footage from YouTube. 
• We edited this footage and placed it in a suitable position on the timeline.

Adding some archive footage to our documentary.

• We decided to swap a few clips of cutaways to make it even easier for the audience to comprehend watching.
• Once we were satisfied with the order of the narrative, our next step was to edit the sound. 

Editing the sound of 'Tasty Takeaways'

• We had to change a lot of our background noise to make sure it was silent or if not that, then at a minimal level. We altered the volume levels in our longer interviews and our Vox Pops so that they were much louder and audible than before.
• It was now important for us to utilise the fact that we have used a blue screen for our Vox Pops. It was now time to add in the chroma key to our blue screens so we could add images relevant to the answers our interviews gave. To add the chroma key, we clicked on the video effects folder, then the keying folder which was inside it. From there, we dragged and dropped the chroma key over all of the vox pops. Now that chroma key has been added, we chose an image to replace the blue from the screen. We had to make sure the image was colourful for the blend to be effective. The opacity was then corrected. 

If an interviewee gave "Chinese" as an answer to their favourite kind of takeaway, we would use an image of Chinese cuisine in the chroma key because it is relevant. 

• Our next job was to find a suitable soundtrack for our documentary. We had some ideas of what the song could be. Among our ideas were Nirvana's 'Smell's Like Teen Spirit' (this was a conditional choice if we had chosen for our documentary to be called 'Taste's Like Teen Spirit') and Lionel Bart's 'Food, Glorious Food' from the musical 'Oliver!'. Eventually, we decided on the song 'Eat It' by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Usually, we would use the parts of the song where there were no vocals at all because to an audience, this song is catchy and we knew that it would work well if we edited our footage to be in time with the fast beat of the song. This is what we did. Sometimes, we needed to introduce fades in the song to lower the volume if the narrator, someone in an interview was speaking or when we were showing an advert in the archive footage. We wanted the song to set a positive mood on our audience.

Our chosen soundtrack was placed on the 'Audio 2' part of the timeline. We used the 'Constant Power' Audio transition so that the part of our soundtrack which we chose to loop sounded much smoother compared with if we chose not to use one at all. 

• In our interviews, we included audio transitions to make sure the sound was not incorrect for each cutaway. Audio transitions helped to make our movements from one sound byte to another much smoother. If we did not include them, our documentary's sound would have been much more jittery in comparison. 
• Our next objective was to script some narration for our documentary because the group felt pleased with what we had done so far. We stuck to our feedback from our target audience research in the planning phase and chose a male narrator who had a powerful voice. Initially, we thought he would mix in well with the theme of the documentary. 
• Once we recorded our narration, we placed it on the timeline and cut out the silient gaps which we deliberately left in between parts of when we we recording. Commonly, the narrator spoke just before and after our interviews. 
• We rewatched the documentary several times to ensure we had done all of our editing correctly. There were some small adjustments that needed to be made involving where the sound fades, volume levels and the order of the clips. Once these minor modifications had been made, we became happy with our Documentary on Takeaways.
• Our final step was to render all the footage together and export it as an AVI file.