Its Good To Talk: Editing

This was the editing process of our our doucmentary - Game of Phones.

We started off by importing all our footage into Adobe Premier Pro. This allowed us to view and split each clip as we went along and added different parts of each part of our interview.

We cut each answer from our interviewee's response to the interview question and dragged it onto the timeline of the video.

We continued this until we had most of the answers placed on the timeline. We did however have an issue where the second half of our audio didnt record and so we could not put the second half of our interview into the finished video.

We then started to look through our cutaway footage and started to cut short sections of them and layer them onto the Video 2 layer to cover up any jumpcuts between questions. These were varied lengths because some cutaways were only cut minimally because they needed to be shown completely. ie. Someone typing on a phone.

We completed placing all our cutaways onto the video 2 layer and covered all the jumpcuts. We also had to put left audio onto the audio so that it was hearable through both speakers or headphones dependant on how the audience watched it.

We then added titles to show the interviewee's name and relevance to the topic that they were answering questions on. We put the text over a black box because it was indistuinguishable without it.

We finally added our titles and music base to the video. The music ensured that the background did not sound empty. The title fades in and out over a still image.