To make sure that we all took it in turns to edit and knew how two use the software we divided it into different sections that they would edit but talking to the rest of the group the whole time to make sure that we all agreed with what was being done.
As I designed the opening titles I asked the group if I could edit them. To do the edit the opening titles was tricky at first as there is many different layers to the video footage to add at the same time, after I got all the footage on the timeline I then started to add the footage onto the same screen as there would be three different moving video footage going on the screen at the same time. I then resized them and added a white background to make them stand out, also added the graphics that Sasha had made in Photoshop. Then it was ready to add the music that I have edited in a different software called Adobe Audition, I cut out the chorus of the song and edited it down to the exact time that was needed for the opening sequence. The reason why I cut out the chorus was it is the most catchy and funky part of the song and it is very happy and will hopefully make the audience feel this.
We had a collection of different songs all relating to shoes that we could use within are documentary. We decide on the song ‘New shoes’ by Paolo Nutini for the opening titles as out of all the different songs it was the most up to date and the one that went with the target audience the most. The other songs that I download for the documentary were the sound track to the film ‘Foot lose’, Evlis presley Blue suede shoes and finally ‘these boots are make for walking’. We used two of the these within are documentary, we decide to add them to different cut way shots that had no voice over and add one of the songs to the graphic that we had in them.
While we were adding we where always checking to see whether everything was relevant towards are target audience a prime example of this is the voxpops. As are target audience is mainly women we made sure the voxpops where mainly done by women, also some of the things weren’t suitable such as swearing even though are documentary would be on after the 9 o’clock watershed we still didn’t feel it would fit in with the documentary itself.
Here are some screen shots that I took at different stages during the editing process.
This is a scene shot of me editing the different music on Adobe Audition. 
This is a scene shot of me changing the different sound levels. 
This is a shot of me importing the video from the cameras to the computer.
While we were adding we where always checking to see whether everything was relevant towards are target audience a prime example of this is the voxpops. As are target audience is mainly women we made sure the voxpops where mainly done by women, also some of the things weren’t suitable such as swearing even though are documentary would be on after the 9 o’clock watershed we still didn’t feel it would fit in with the documentary itself.
I thought as a team we worked very well together as we all had are own sections but asked each other what they thought and we weren’t afraid to tell the truth if we didn’t like it. We would use are spare time and organised with each other when we were going to do it and what parts to do.
After we finished editing it we all sat down as a group and watched the documentary, made our own notes as what bits we would thought we could improve and checking all the volume alright thought out the film. After it finished we then disused what notes we had each come up with.
As we more onto the next section of are work I decide to carry on adding the finishing touches to the documentary as the others moved onto the print add and the radio add.
Permission Letters
We needed to sent an email to the ask the companies if we were able to play there music on our documentary. Below is a copy of the email that we sent.
To: humanresources@sonymusic.com
From: Sasha Jones
Dear Sony Music Records,
We would like to use the following songs in a documentary we are producing for our A Level coursework:
Paolo Nutini- New Shoes
Footloose soundtrack
Elvis Presley-blue suede shoes
We will not allow any other resources to use your music tracks in any way, we will not edit them in any way and will only use them in our documentary.We would really appreciate it if you would give us permission to use your songs.
Yours Sincerely
Sasha Jones, Natalie Allcock, Whitney Griffiths
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