I started by organising all of my takes and audio files into 'Adobe Premiere CC'.
For the interview with Emily White, I Dragged the interview footage onto the timeline.
After placing the footage into the timeline, I then used the razor tool to split gaps, where Emily had long pauses/long stutters
This enabled for a more smoother and quick paced flow to the answers Emily gave.
If I had not cut between the pauses and stutters, the answers would be too long, immediately disengaging audiences attention span.
I started the in point of most of Emily's answers, during her first responses to the question, as it would more easily signify the topic she was going on about.
For example at one point when I asked Emily "Do you feel that society accommodates for your needs well enough?", I started the in point at where Emily says "I feel that society accommodates for my needs".
Next I then selected in points at where Emily would give examples of her being able to do things. For example I next selected a section of dialogue where Emily said "My home life, I've been given everything that I need to support me".
This would help to go into deeper detail of how Emily is able to live an easy and convenient lifestyle.
For the Hope and Nature centre interviews, I applied the razor tool once more.
However I also overlapped additional footage of the centre to enforce what one of the centres trustees Jo Burbidge (below) was talking about.
For example at a point where Jo Burbidge says "They can gain work experience, particularly life skills", I placed a section of footage of one of the employees (below right) preparing some food and placed it over the section of interview footage with Jo Burbidge saying "Particularly life skills".
This would help to enforce how the company is genuine in what they are saying, as the audience can literally see one of the employees doing a job service.
On Wednesday the 25th of November 2015, after having accumulated my footage from 'Hope and Nature centre' of the service volunteers working, I placed footage of the service workers overlapping with the trustee Jo Burbidge talking about how the centre assists the special needs adults with gaining work experience and life skills. Thus the footage helps to enforce that what they say is true and could hopefully convince audiences into being convinced that a portion of society is tackling problems disabled people do find difficult.
For the part of the interview where Jo Burbidge says "The one thing we are lacking at the moment is space", I overlapped this dialogue with a couple of shots of tightly crammed shelves and of one of the trustees placing clothes into a small spaced closet. This may hopefully set out to achieve as a visual metaphor, in enforcing that the working accommodation is genuinely lacking space.
Translating Mathew Burbidges interview
Mathew Burbidges cerebal palsy involves him also having a speech impairment, making it difficult to sometimes understand what he says. Luckily my grandmother (I.e Mathew Burbidges mother) is able to understand what Mathew says more easily.
On Thursday the 26 th December 2015, I downloaded the interview footage with Mathew Burbidge onto my Google drive as shown below.
Next, I made a log of each interview clip, so I would know exactly what he says in what clip.
I would also annotate at what point in the video Mathew says a particular sentence.
Below are my translation notes.
After managing to have Mathew Burbidges dialogue translated, I placed the text over specific sections of clips in the interview and additional footage.
Post production feedback
My Tutor reviewed the edited footage so far of Hope and Nature Centre and Mathew Burbidges interview.
My Tutor commented on the following:
For shots of the Hope and Nature certificate and warning signs - Don't have them as quick cuts, allow long shots for audiences to read and take in the information being shown to them. As though the audience themselves are in the environment reading at leisure.
Mathew Burbidge interview - Apply fade transitions with cuts between talking, or allow for long pauses/cutaways between talking. My Tutor also recommended that I could skip to over interviews with relevant content, to keep a reasonably smooth place to the interview.s
For the interview with Kim Hunte, I managed to download the internship video from 'YouTube' (after having obtained permission to use it). I placed sections of the video showing some students being helped with work by a tutor in the college. I placed it to sections of footage where Kim Hunte was speaking about how their services help students with obtaining information in lessons and additional support, to convey to audiences that what Kim Hunte was saying was indeed genuine.
Stringing the footage together
On Friday the 4th of December 2015, I used a 'YouTube' convertor website to download required stock footage, from footage of disabled people being isolated institutions, as well as the Paralympics and clips with Alex Brook on 'The last leg'.
I stringed together the sections of these clips, being relevant for the introduction, due to it establishing the context of how disabled use to be treated and then transitioning to how far their equality has come.
To express how well disabled people are now being treated by society, I showed positive action paced shots of the paralympians running past the finish line, Alex brook laughing with another guest on 'The last Leg' and some paralympians hitting tennis balls with their rackets at quick paces.
The selective usage of these clips would then help to deeply contrast to the initial footage of disabled people being isolated in institutions.
Next I cut each individual interview reel, until it was at a reasonably quick, but not entirely too surreal quick pace. After sorting the appropriate interviews in each appropriate section according to the script format (I.e all interviews concerning disabled peoples employment all go together in one section of the timeline, separate from the other interview topics such as 'going out').
Next, I dragged each interview topic together, creating the approximate duration of 15 minutes so far.
Additionally, I applied cutaways of Emily White using her accommodating items at home to help her get around.
Additionally, I incorporated a funny clip of Emily's gibber it toilet splashing through the ceiling and shortly after added an interview shot of Emily's father Mathew White explaining how all of the accommodating items are rather expensive.
Further cutting needs to be applied.
Musics choices and reasons for effectiveness
I used the sight 'http://incompetech.com' from Kevin Macleod and went through different music tracks, which I felt would be appropriate for my documentary.
The tone of my documentary is a casual and light hearted one.
I selected tracks with a bright and relaxed tone, so my potential choice could maintain the light and causal vibe in the documentary, while not being too over mining for audiences to be distracted by what is being said by the interviewees and narrator.
Below are my choices and reasons why:
1. 'Life of Riley' - This track contains light toned and high pitched dinging sections, giving of a warm and friendly tone to the documentary. Aside from some occasional high pitched 'ding' sections in the music, the track overall does not poses a too overmanning tone for the content (I.e interviews and footage) to be drowned away, but to equally compliment them.
2. 'Minin by the moonlight' - This track contains a consistent light tone, similar to 'Life of Riley', but includes slightly sharp and edgy tones (played by guitar strings), giving of a slight tone of negativity, but in a not in a dark enough vibe, giving personifying the negative factors, the interviewees talk about, in a rather light hearted way, as though they are a nuisance. As a whole It helps to maintain the documentaries light tone, but while still being able to contrast between moods.
3. 'Easy Lemon' - This track would be ideal for the conclusion track, as the tone has a light hearted and slightly happy tone, but at the same time gives of a conclusive tone, enforcing how the documentary is beginning to come to an end.
4. 'Reunited' - This track has a rather explosive happy tone, helping to add value to how the 'Hope and Nature centre' give of the positive atmosphere of the setting and how well it accommodates for disabled employees.
5. 'Light Thought Var' - This track has a more sombre tone, which would help to enforce Emily Whites fortune in having all of her needs supplied at home.
6. 'Bassa Island Hoop' - This track has a rather bright and refreshing mood, adding value in emphasising how far disabled people have come in terms of their equality and access to things.
7. 'Court of the queen' - This section implies a slightly mischievous mood, which would enforce a rather humorous personae to Mathew Burbidge.
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Applying the conclusion track
Applying opening footage
On Thursday the 10th of December 2015, I tried looking for footage (around the 1940s) of disabled people continuing to be neglected.
I found a commercial (occurring around the 1940s), promoting how disabled people can be capable of just the same things as us.
I included a section of the commercial with a solider lacking an arm and looking sad, as well as a close up shot of him looking sad and a cross fade of a flying plane, white house building and a modern family having fun.
I placed this section of footage of how over the years disabled people claimed for more rights. The corresponding footage would hopefully serve as a metaphorical form of imager in showing audiences how disabled people wished to be capable of things such as flying a plane or an important job etc.
Feedback on footage so far
On Friday the 15th of December 2015, I showed my Tutor the Documentary edit so far.
He commented on the following:
The prologue music was too melodramatically sad.
Apply cross fade transitions to interviews with sudden jump cuts to give a more smoother pace.
Ensure to fade to black after the end of an interview, to immediately signify the end of the interview and that we are moving on to a new scene.
For the interview with Emily describing her shower chair, I did not allow for her to fully finish her sentence and immediately cut to the giberit toilet squirting out water.
I needed to also allow for an additional duration of the scene showing exactly what was happening to the gibberit toilet. This would of course easily convey to audiences what was happening, rather than appearing randomely and pondering audiences. Additionally, the comments on the giberit splashing water (I.e "Did you get that?" and "Don't worry the cameras okay") would give humorous remarks and apply the light hearted tone to the documentary as well as hopefully giving audiences a slight sense of comic relief, rather than being completely subjected to just an educational documentary.
For the scene with Mathew Burbidge, my Tutor stated I would need to change the dialogue "Mathew Burbidge is currently in employment. However things do not always work out as easily for him" to "Today I will be interviewing Mathew Burbidge, asking him of the challenges he faces in work". This applies a clearer message to what the audience are about to find out and makes it much more relevant to the context of the documentary, due to the documentary exploring the reality of a disabled persons life, in aspects including living at home, employment and going out.
My Tutor liked how the footage was edited in the interview.
However, he stated there needed to be a more clearer structure, due to each interview not smoothly transitioning and appearing more randomly out of nowhere.
For example, after the interviews with the people describing their accessibility to transport and home living, I then immediately cut to the narration voice section, talking about the labour force survey.
These two topics immediately transition, without a smooth pace, to allow for the home living subject to smoothly leap toward the employment subject.
My Tutor recommended to either write up additional dialogue, or to even include a title template based on each subject.
I applied a title template, as you can see below.
However, I also applied additional sections of dialogue and planned a structure:
Below is a basic structure formulated, based around recommendations by my Tutor as well as my own original ideas.
Monologue on how disability is often misunderstood in the press and media.
My Tutor also recommended for me to change the opening.
Applying music tracks to documentary
Final feedback
On Thursday the 17th of December 2015, I showed my Tutor the near completed documentary.
He commented on the following:
The translation notes for Mathew Burbidge needed to be highlighted in a yellow text, so they could stand out more.
He also pointed out this to be an industry standard technique.
He recommended for me to apply a black over line to make the text stand out even more and to apply a consistent size and position with the text.
Unfortunately, I was pressed for time and could not apply a consistency with the text, although I did manage to apply a yellow colour and consistent font to all of the translations.
My Tutor also stated the biggest current issue was the mixing between dialogue and soundtrack, which drowned out a lot of the interview responses.
Finished products
Final version
Documentary presentation
On Friday the 8th of January 2016, I presented my documentary and PowerPoint to my Tutor and peers.
My Tutor commented that documentary to be effective In being seamlessly edited as well as the contributors being represented fairly and positively.
He stated the only things needing to be changed would be the opening, as it contains the narration voice and music occurring both at once at the very start, making it too much for audiences to absorb and take in, due to it being so sudden.
He also commented there to be a few spelling errors in the translations for Mathews interview translation notes.