Tuesday 9 May 2017

DOCUMENTARY: Time-codes, Transcript & Sync Assembly

Jack recording the V.O
Today we did all we could do towards the transcript and sync assembly. We still need to film tomorrow evening at another training session to get James' and Jason's interviews. Apart from these we have completed all our other filming, as we recorded the voice over today also.

The voice over went well, we found Jack would be the best voice for the documentary and we recorded a couple of lines, introducing Carl, stating the statistics and talking about the East End Phoenix. 
Time-codes
I created the time-codes for all the interviews. This included Carl's before and after training session interview and Ed's interview and James' and Jason's interviews. 

This was a very long and boring process but as we learnt it has to be done to make the editing process a lot easier.  


Sections of Carl and Ed's time-coded interviews

Transcript
The transcript is every single word which was said during all the interviews. It was also a long but essential process. Some bits I took from the time-codes as I copied the majority of the time-codes word for word as well. Below is our full transcript:






Sync assembly
We highlighted all the speech we found important for the documentary on the time-code sheet and put it in the right order. This is our edited documentary down on paper, now all I need to do is put it together on Premiere to create the base of our actual documentary. We changed the plan from the original script, we knew this would happen but we've changed it quite a bit and are a lot happier with it now. 

Finding the correct order for everything was the hardest part as we originally planned to structure the documentary as a football game, e.g. the first whistle to start the game blows at the beginning of the doc and then half time whistles and then the full time whistle to end the doc and cut to each character while the game is playing. We then had to put in Carl's training session somewhere but it would have been confusing if we were cutting from a real Sunday League game to a training session with different people, different clothing and a different location. Therefore, we decided to get Carl's section done at the beginning and take him to the training session then and then blow the first whistle for the actual match footage and place the other interviews in between. 
Screenshot of the start of the sync assembly

The only problem with this is that some things that Carl and Ed say link quite well together and ideally would be nice cut together in the edit but we need to keep Carl at the top and Ed in the middle so we aren't confusing our audience, which was slightly annoying.

Once we agreed on the structure we created a shooting script which is what we followed to place everything in the correct order in Premiere. 


Paper sync assembly

           





Once Jack and myself highlighted and agreed on what should go into the edit, I started putting it together on Premiere Pro. We followed the shooting script to help us structure the documentary for the first edit. 


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