✄彡Documentary Production (iv)

04

Post-Production

    Editing the documentary was not very difficult (lie, it was a bit tricky considering how I had to consider the timing of the B-roll footage with the audio) at first until I realized when I played back what I edited, there was a major lack of B-roll footage. When I first reviewed the footage, I originally thought it was just enough, but 'just enough' is not enough. 

    

    There should always be extra footage that can be used. I had to restructure some of the audio and B-roll, but it still had almost too much space between the B-roll and interview footage. This is especially evident in Sarah's portion of the documentary.

    The red box in this image represents the B-roll footage as the one under is interview footage. By the 5-minute mark, Sarah's portion starts. Compared to Mia's portion, it severely lacked footage, even though Mia's portion was already lacking quite a bit.

    Another issue was during rendering, the all footage would randomly have the exposure set too high. This is as follows:

Footage during editing preview

Footage during rendering and export

    I never figured out how to fix this, but in the final version, Mia (group member) lowered the exposure-- perhaps a bit too much. It ended up being a bit inconsistent with some other footage that was added. I should have used Adobe After Effects instead of Adobe Premiere if I knew this technical issue would arise... Especially since I know my way through After Effects more than Premiere Pro, which I have not used since grade 8.