So to start with we needed to learn the different commands that do different things on the software as it has all changed. Here are the basic instructions and commands we were given in order to use the software both basically and intricately.
So this is the software that we will be using to edit our documentary footage and audio as well as adding titles. When we imported the footage it was time to get editing!
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| Final Cut Pro X |
Inserting Clips onto the time line
Right, so here are our clips, we needed to divide the clips up into folders to allow us to easily find clips. For example, we divided up the B-roll and interviews with the people at Chasewater.
Adding in name captions
And hey presto! Here you have the two interviews with their names and status on clearly.
So as you can see from this image the sound is attached to the main timeline of clips. This allows us to attach the audio we recorded separately on the on location recording kit. By having the audio separately it allowed us to get the sound more clearly than if we used the sound captured in the on screen action from the digital SLR camera. Most of the audio syncs to the clips if the audio is clear and easy for the software to match it to the clips.
Right, so here are our clips, we needed to divide the clips up into folders to allow us to easily find clips. For example, we divided up the B-roll and interviews with the people at Chasewater.
Adding in name captions
In a typical documentary, you usually have the caption of the person who you are interviewing's name and their title (e.g. local litter picker). This is usually at the beginning of the interview over the top of the head shot of the person or people being interviewed.
This is done by adding an image over the top of the clip under the tab called 'Titles' . This is then attached to the image as seen in the next images for a certain amount of time.
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| The local litter pickers name and title is stated in a caption in the lower 3rd of the shot. |
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| Again the title of the male and female being interviewed is stated in the lower 3rd of the shot as before. |
Adding a film title
The addition of the titles is basically the same as it was for the captions. We selected the format we wanted our titles to be in and the font style then added it to the end of our documentary. This was the last thing that we added into our documentary to see how long the actual footage was.
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| The title layout chosen and the layout. |
Linking audio to clips
So as you can see from this image the sound is attached to the main timeline of clips. This allows us to attach the audio we recorded separately on the on location recording kit. By having the audio separately it allowed us to get the sound more clearly than if we used the sound captured in the on screen action from the digital SLR camera. Most of the audio syncs to the clips if the audio is clear and easy for the software to match it to the clips.
As you can see from the shot below this is what the final product should look like on the timeline with the main footage in the middle with the jump shots, audio and music at the top and the bottom of the Main timeline.
Now that or documentary has been filmed and edited, it was time to see what our audience thought of it and whether or not our production team had followed the typical conventions of a documentary and our brief.
