Documentary Unit - The Editing Process

We had split the editing into six parts and we each had two each to focus on. Mine were the Nutritionist interview as well as the photoshoot montage. after some parts had merged I wanted to do more so created the intro, outro and credits.

I like editing so I was looking forward to it, of course we came across problems along the way but as a team we came together and worked really hard to get the final project together. It was good that most of the time all 3 of us were bouncing off opinions on each others work so that we could constantly improve it. Whilst it means that the tension can get high as you put time into something for it to be changed but it means we ended up with a good project, which we are all happy with.

I found adding B Roll really added to all of the project, it meant that the interviews that were pretty boring were brought to life with something more interesting to look at. It was tough to keep the B Roll relevant so it has been vastly edited as at times it didn't make much sense, but after a lot of effort the B Roll looked great.

George made pop up name cards, facts and tip cards which were added to the project to make it better visually for the viewer to know what is being shown on screen.

Some shots needed closer up pictures to show what was going on, it was simple editing but it means that the viewer can follow our story a lot more closely.

Thanks to great feedback from each other and in our meetings with Zoe, Helen and Sam we really nailed the editing and we feel we do have a good piece of work.

I feel we did a great job as a group in editing, we all fairly contributed to it and even though it was tough when placing all into the main project, it meant we all got to have a proper go at editing.