Editing Process

Clips
For the editing of the footage and sound clips we used Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe Soundbooth, both in CS4. Before importing our clips into Premier Pro we went through and deleted ones that had errors or were accidental recordings and kept the ones that had potential, after that we renamed most of them to make finding the right clips simple and non time consuming. After this we began to chose our favourite clips and import them in the correct order and trimmed parts we didn't need, this also helped to create continuity throughout the opening. This was mine, Heather's and Beth's first time using Premier Pro properly and it was confusing to begin with but we began to get the hang of it and build our skills throughout the process, which took in total just over a week. Heather took a lot of charge in doing extra trimming to clips and sorting transitions which was fine with us because we all still got our input and gave our opinions on changes being made.

Sound/Music
During filming the weather was extremely windy and it effected our audio tremendously so we thought about ways we could resolve the audio problem and we decided to take out every piece of audio throughout the whole composition and dub over the speech and find various sound effects to make up for the ambient sounds such as footsteps, birds and wind. I took a lot of charge when it came to the sound, in terms of equalizing the volumes, placing the clips and trimming appropriately. We found a website that we got all our sound stock from which was all of a high quality, it took some time going through all the samples but we ended up with some really good and raw sounds that we could mix and combine to create a natural ambient sound-scape. We asked other media students (Jacob Maud, Esha Bhogal and Heather Pullen) to read out the script so we could use their voices to dub over the original voices as they were extremely muffled. Editing the voices into the composition was tricky in terms of matching the lips to the words but I managed to get it to look reasonably accurate apart from one which was extremely hard to do. The footsteps had to be matched to the steps which was incredibly hard to do and very time consuming but I was determined for it to look real so I spent time correctly arranging the footstep sound clips appropriately. After the sound was correctly placed and trimmed I did a little research into how to correctly edit the clips to make them louder, quieter and how to have an equal level of volume in a number of clips and this is where I got to use Adobe Soundbooth. I used a few tutorials and quickly got the hang of it and corrected our audio so we could move onto adding finishing touches and music.