Now that we had the rough cut done Olivia started to edit the sound. She imported the sound bites into Soundtrack Pro and started to use Compression and Noise Reduction to get rid of back ground noise. Once she had completed this she re imported the tracks into Final Cut Pro and re synced them.
When watching back the Piece both Joe and I felt that the previous tracks sounded better with background noise rather then having the edited ones that have a slight echo to them. Joe then imported the acoustic tracks that he had recorded of his friend to have as a backing track. We both sat and went through adjusting the levels and adding fades to the sound bites in order to keep the piece flowing.
As producer Hannah had been letting us get on with the edit so came in so that I could have her opinion on the progress of the edit. This was helpful as we had a fresh look on it and she had pointed out a few changes that would improve the piece. Once this was done we exported and burn the discs.
Overall I think from having such a poor start to this project we managed to create something far better then I thought we could have, even though I don’t think it’s the strongest it could have been. Many of the shots could be improved and by having better planning and communication we could have come out with a much stronger initial footage to work with and therefore stronger documentary in the end. In the end we all did pull together and it could have ended a lot worse then it did. It reminds me of a typical commercial documentary that you'd find on the tv, where nothing really exciting happens and it doesn't challenge you in any way. I didn't really want to create a documentary like this but I proud with the fact that we even had one at the end of the day.
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