AS Task - Editing

Editing began with cutting out all of the questions from the interview to just leave the video and audio of the answers behind. We have started to edit images from the Internet into some of the spaces, for example, images of an old nokia phone, a sliding samsung phone and a blackberry as cutaways for which phones she has had. We have added crossfades in between the images to make it flow more so that it looks less jumpy. We have put the same fade on everything because we think that this makes it look classier and less busy. We are not trying to get in every transition type but to create a good quality documentary and we thought that a simple, elegant fade worked the best.
After finishing the filming we edited everything together to make our finished documentary. To create a flashing effect with the swapping phone clips we added a very small section of white video so that it flashed up quickly in between them all. During our editing, we experimented with unlinking the video and the audio to place some of the cutaways over the image with the audio still going. One example of this is when Katie says what her ringtone is. As she is describing why she chose it an image of the album artwork appears. Originally we wanted to put a section of the song in afterwards so that everybody would know which song it was that she was talking about. However, the file format of the song that we had got was not supported with the software and we did not have time to convert it or get another one.
The tools that we used during editing include the razor, to cut the images in the places that we wanted, the normal mouse to move the clips to where we wanted them and extend and shorten the clips and crossfades. We also added lighting effects because of where we had filmed it, with the light behind Katie, it was too dark to see her face. We lightened it up by using several of the settings layered on top of each other.