Editing Food for Thought 23rd April

Today we continued to edit our documentary "Food for Thought" we focused on piecing together the piece using sub clips and photos as cross cuttings to illustrate what the Nutritionist was saying, for example food that Anna has prepared before in her workshops.

Also to make the documentary flow easier and make it more interesting we added fade in fade out transitions which helps make the documentary flow easier and helps link into the next point that the interviewee is making. This was a useful exercises for me as I learned new skills and techniques that helped me to understand when and how transitions are necessary and when they are not.

Another way of making the documentary flow well is the use of title sequences that can also be used to make the documentary more interesting than just having an interview that is constant as titles explain and set up the next point that the documentary or the interviewee is covering. For example we had shots of Anna sharing her food with members of the public and a title sequence came on before explaining to the audience what is happening next "what did the public think..."

The difficulty with today's editing was deciding whether or not to use clips or photographs to break up the interviews as we found some clips worked well but had faults within them, for example some shots were not steady and therefore shook a lot as these therefore had to become photos.

Another technique we covered was when adding photos we could decide whether the shot of the photo would start by zooming in or out of the to give it a more stylish feel.