Editing: Week I

I'm very excited!

So, earlier this week we got together and uploaded our interview footage. We went through the interview footage and pulled out clips that we could potentially use in our film. We also went through the B-roll we have so far and tried to see what we can use.

Our whole interview clip with Chris lasted about 40 minutes so we had a decent amount of footage to pull from. Truth be told, it looks pretty good! I think that we will be able to move clips around and get a cohesive narrative.

We are having a little bit of trouble with our audio -- we only had my phone recording and Julia's camera mic-- so it sounds a little bit like he was in a wind tunnel when the volume is turned up, but Julia says that she should hopefully be able to fix that with another program that she has on her computer. I really hope that she can do that otherwise our interview is going to sound a little bit garbled.

A couple things we will have to figure out, most likely by laying B-roll over top of it, is that the door behind Chris is open for the first few questions of the interview, and then I closed it because there was a little bit of background noise coming from behind the door so it looks a little bit inconsistent between the beginning and the final chunk of the interview. The girls think we should be able to cut out most of the 'uh's' and 'uhms' and the time where Chris accidentally says 'ass' when trying to say something else.. fairly humorous slip, but not great for the film..

I was a little bit overwhelmed when we all sat down because of the program. iMovie is so foreign to me and everyone else seems to know how to navigate around just fine! I have figured out how to expand the clips to look at 1 second clips or 30 second clips, to drag clips, delete highlighted clips, how to delete audio from a clip, and to start and stop the clip from playing. I'd say I'm doing fairly well for an amateur!

Looking at our footage, I'm actually pretty excited! We went through as a group and sort of figured out what we thought the best order would be to put the clips in to make it seem logical. Kels and I offered to stay and rearrange the clips now that we had them organized on paper; I think with a little bit more playing around it, and some B-roll to tie a few transitions together, the chronology will work really well.

We still haven't gotten our footage from the Pier Hotel or from Cornett so that will also add good B- roll. I'm beginning to think that B-roll is key especially in the earlier clips when the door open or before we had Chris angle himself slightly more towards the camera.

As it stands, the interview and B-roll footage has been taken, uploaded and cut into workable pieces for us to start piecing together this coming week! I think we are going to try and come in on our own time and do some of the small things that need to be done: taking out audio from B-roll clips, cutting out uhms, etc., fixing the lighting in a few clips, etc. Hopefully the next time we all get together we will be able to get down to about 15 minutes of film, and start matching up the B-roll with the clips!

It's crazy, but I think this film could actually turn out to be pretty good in the end if we can pull this off!