Ready to Edit!

Friday was our final day of tasks before editing. These included filming, gathering footage (archival and trailers), and completing voiceovers. On Tuesday we will begin the editing process. This will first consist of organizing our footage and material. I have been doing it a little as we went but it’s not great yet, still somewhat of a mess. We have an estimated hour or so of material, which we will eventually get down to about 20 minutes. Mr. Kwait told us that for a feature length film, around 90 minutes; he has around 100 hours of footage. His first edit goes to about four or five hours. We expect our first “rough cut” to be around 40 minutes. One of the harder things we will have to do is sacrifice footage and material that we worked hard to get in order to shorten the film and keep audiences attention. After we get all the visual footage into place, soundtrack and voice-overs placement will come. We found a few songs for the background, but many documentaries consist of narration. Joey and I will both do some narration only to equally divide the work, because most documentaries have a single narrator. We will see what we decide to do. The rest of our project will be behind a computer finalizing our product.