editing

     So where did we leave off.. oh yes. Two days to edit. Now this definitely was not a good thing, although I wouldn't say we necessarily had a choice. We got out last interview the day before, and we wanted to have all the interviews gathered before we started constructing the line edit. In order to go through the interviews easier, we made a document with all of the interview transcriptions. 

    Here they are, it's a beaut ain't it?: transcript

    All the interviews together were just about two hours, and at font size 11 the transcripts took up 25 pages. Geez, this is a lot. Editing interviews for a documentary is very similar to editing for a news story, which I was used too. News stories generally have two interviews, so I was expecting our six to take three to four times as long. Ha. So it turns out the time to edit interviews together increases exponentially the more you have. 

    We decided that the best way to add structure to the story and move it along would be to use interviews of ourselves to talk about what is happening on screen, much in a similar way to Banksy's interviews in Exit Through the Gift Shop. 

    The big problem with this was finding time to film. We're seniors in high school. We're busy. First of all, Dani is a band kid. No offense, but "band kid" and "having lives" are not in the same sentence. Vic is a chorus and drama kid, which both had a bunch of stuff going on at this time. I'm a tv kid, which means I also had a bunch of stuff going on. Vic and I also both had a big calc test coming up. Basically, time was something we did not have. 

    

    The main goal was to watch the line edit, then fill in the spots with written out lines for our interview. However, since the line edit was not done, and we didn't have time to meet up, we recorded our own interviews, without seeing the footage we were adding it too. This was what I think ended up being the biggest flaw with out piece, as I think having our interviews scattered throughout the piece would have made audiences understand what was happening way better. 

    Either way, it was the afternoon the project was due, so there was no time to complain. I worked on putting together all of the interviews(with some help from Dani), while Vic worked on editing the mots and the intro. Vic was actually able to use her own interview a lot in the first part, and it was obvious that it works well, we just didn't have our own interviews that fit within the main interview section of the piece. 

    

Here is the timeline when I was done. The selected part was the final doc.

    Vic then took the interviews and added it to her section, which she somehow edited on her phone. The sun was very much in the sky by the time it was complete. 

    The final product was a little over 13 minutes long, which is longer than we initially intended, but we were all very proud of how it came out. This documentary is still very much not done in our eyes. We see so much potential that we can add to this project, and we plan on fixing all of our mistakes in the future. 

    Here is what we ended up submitting, Does This Make You Uncomfortable? , I will eventually post the new and improved doc here, but this is what we have for now.

    So yeah. That's how I ended up watching my English teacher show us his toes. Life is crazy.