Task 1: Documentary Editing

For this task we began looking through the different clips for the film and chose the ones that we wished to import onto Avid. This is our first project working on Avid so we were a little confused how to do certain tasks such as splitting up a clip without a 'split' tool but we got used to the 'mark in' and 'mark out' buttons. It took us a while to become familiar with the correct settings when creating our new project, such as changing the timecode from 01:00:00:00 to 10:00:00:00 and creating bins.

After creating the bins for our rushes and first assembly, we imported the chosen clips for the film and renamed each one, for example 'CU INT Behind Ady's back'. We took a while to decide which shots to use for our opening scene to 'The Escape Movement' but after looking through various clips we decided that opening with a track shot behind Ady look over Sheffield would fit suitably. Most of these shots, in my opinion could have been used apart from some of them were too out of focus or too long with just Ady talking for a very long period of time.

Our edit begins with Ady talking about his poetry and influences and we decided to begin the film with this so that the audience could feel some relationship with the protagonist from the very start. Ady comes across as a chatty and sociable character and when he talks about where he performs, we decided to use shots of the location to expand on  his story.I found it interesting to hear about Ady's story but out of all of the brief we had been given, I found this was the most difficult to find a chronological order for as there was so much information he was giving us and we had to fit it all into 5 minutes.