Major Project: Editing-Dan Rowbottom Interview
The final interview we have in our documentary is an interview with Dan Rowbottom. This is one of our most effective sequences and is actually one that has changed the least.
The scene originally opened with several long establishing shots,
but after feedback from Alex this changed to include traveling in the car footage, two short establishing shots and one further shot to match up with the V/O we recorded.
We then jump straight in to the interview which for the most part is a walk and talk discussion. Getting the two mic's to match wasn't too hard although I did have some echo which I was able to mostly eliminate after a lot of fiddling around with keyframes.
The scene is split in to three distinct halves all of which are covered in one take requiring little use of cut aways or B-roll. I did have to use some at the start to cover a shakey camera moment. Initially, I had a lot of trouble getting this to match. But with some help from Alex and Cailan we got it working.
Originally also the scenes of this interview felt very sperate and disconnected, but with some quick l-cutting and transition shots while we here SOT, the scene began to flow a lot better. This only got tighter as time went on.
The final part of the scene was a little difficult to edit where the shots where so widley
different in lighting and colour. I tried to add a reduce grain filter, a sharpening mask, lowering the contrast. None of which seemed to really help. Eventually, after running it by Alex several times I managed to boost the shadows, reduce the highlights and adjust the temperature tint of the two shots so they matched more seamlessly.
Overall this sequence is one of our longer ones, but feels justifiably so, and manages to keep the energy up throughout. It required little cut aways too which made it one of the more simple sequences to edit, but one I am happy with nine the less.
The scene originally opened with several long establishing shots,
We then jump straight in to the interview which for the most part is a walk and talk discussion. Getting the two mic's to match wasn't too hard although I did have some echo which I was able to mostly eliminate after a lot of fiddling around with keyframes.
The scene is split in to three distinct halves all of which are covered in one take requiring little use of cut aways or B-roll. I did have to use some at the start to cover a shakey camera moment. Initially, I had a lot of trouble getting this to match. But with some help from Alex and Cailan we got it working.
The final part of the scene was a little difficult to edit where the shots where so widley
Overall this sequence is one of our longer ones, but feels justifiably so, and manages to keep the energy up throughout. It required little cut aways too which made it one of the more simple sequences to edit, but one I am happy with nine the less.
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