Research

Research

Our approach to this documentary was to take on a poetic style. As our narrative revolved around a personal story the poetic approach was best suited for our documentary. We will use cinematography and editing to emphasise certain aspects of this particular information gained from the interviews. The use of music will be used to make it feel more personal and add to the overall feel of the film.
Poetic Approach
January 2011, Life Through A Lens 

When editing the sound I found that we had to cut up the interviews to gain the information that was needed. This meant that when paired up and synced with the image a jump cut occurred. This lead to difficulties as you could tell where the edit in sound and image had taken place. Therefore we would use cut aways and keep the voice running over these so that the edit was not as noticeable. I heard about using this technique from a YouTube video while undertaking my research. 

YouTube Video 
CICS Teaching Tech, 20th February 2012, Video Production Tips

When it comes to our documentary we always knew we wanted to use voice over. We needed a clear narrative that told a story from beginning through to the end. The problem of this was deciding what order to put the interviews in and where to inter cut them with cut aways and to swap from one interview to another. 

When conducting my research I found a YouTube video that talks about the best place to cut audio. He informs me that if a sentence is said incorrectly and so you have another take the best way to connect the two sentences is actually in the middle of a word rather than at the beginning or end of word, this way the sentence flows much better and you can't see the edit. I will try to include this technique when I come to editing the documentary as it seemed to work well.
YouTube Video
Mike Russel, 11th December 2012,  Me 1 Minute - And I'll Give You An Audio Editing Secret