Editing the Documentary

The first sections of our documentary that we began to edit were the interviews. Due to complications with the School's server system being down, we did not have the images to begin editing the opening titles, so we could not start from the beginning which may have been easier. We did our editing on Abode Premier Pro, and the first slice of editing we approached was cutting out the interview questions asked by us to the interviewee (Tattoo artist and Rachael's uncle). We did this by dragging the clips onto the timeline and using the razor tool to cut between each answer, to be able to get a definite cut-off point for each section. We placed the interview with the tattoo artist before the interview with Rachael's uncle on the timeline, as this is the order they'll appear in on our documentary.

After this we began to edit out the questions in the Voxpop, and all irrelevant filming (e.g. the mic getting in the film framing - would be unprofessional to display). This eliminated us actually using two of our interviewees for our voxpop, as the filming quality was poorer than what is eligible to use. We edited these out using the same technique: the razor tool. This just left us with the remaining interviewee's opinions with us to work with. We placed this on the end of our timeline, to match its place in the documentary.

Leaving this behind for further editing, i then dragged the filming of the girl getting a tattoo onto the timeline, placing it between the two main interviews between the tattoo artist and Rachael's uncle. I then attempted to edit out 30 seconds for us to use in the documentary, using the razor tool once again to cut and delete all unneeded film. (However this later got changed).

When we had finally re-took the photos for the opening titles, and Rachael had filmed the photos all side-by-side as a printed out JPEG image, Radu and me began to lay it all out on the timeline near the beginning (leaving space for the short-section Montage of tattoo images that would be going before it). All the images were saved as 'JPEG' files, and we uploaded and dragged each one onto the timeline separately. The first image we edited was of the 'T' image, were we set the viewing time and then adjusted the image to fill the screen appropriately. We did this to all the images, setting them out in order to spell out 'The Human Canvas'. We then set a flash inbetween each of the images, using a shorter-timed white colour block situated on the timeline above, and used a quick cross-dissolve to create a flashing effect. After doing this we rendered the work area so it would flow smoothly. At the end of this sequence we placed the full filmed title, and the dissolved this to black after a few viewing seconds. Until we uploaded the backing track for this (Linkin' Park - Crawling), we had this section finished.

Examples of editing:

Permission for the Music:

To be able to use the music that we chose to include in our documentary we needed to write to the company to ask permission for it, as it legally belongs to them and could be seen as copyright. The following images are screengrabs of the emails i sent to the each of the companies that owned the rights to the music: