DIGITAL NEWS: Editing Our News Production & Rough Cut Feedback

As we were filming right up until the day before the rough cut deadline, we had only edited parts of the news production so we had something to show Helen for her feedback. We each took different parts to edit. Alex started the studio shots and the trailer, Katie edited the 'live' section and put the cutaways on top of the interview, and Jason and myself took different parts of the package as that was the biggest section.

I took the section with our visual metaphor and the M&Ms, when I started I realised how difficult this bit was because we did the M&Ms and the talking separately and Jason was talking too fast for his hands when I put it together. After a bit of experimenting I thought about speeding up the parts where his hands leave the shot to pick up a glass to bring back into the shot. As we have produced a quirky video this worked really well and gave a fun element to it, which flows with the theme of our channel.

Speeding up effect on video:

As it can be seen from the photos below, the DSLR has a nicer colour to the shots than the EX's. Once each of our edits are put together next week we will all input into the colour correction and text to help produce the best look that we can get for our production.

DSLR camera

EX camera

EX camera 

Colour correction

Because of the significant change of colour from two completely different cameras, I colour corrected my section of the edit so the colour was the same throughout. As it can be seen from the photos below, the colour is a lot nicer and matches the DSLR photo without needed to actually colour correct the DSLR shots.

EX camera - colour corrected

EX camera - colour corrected

DSLR camera - not colour corrected

Rough cut feedback

We all had different parts of the production on our computers so we had to show Helen in stages. Alex had the studio section, then it was my turn with one half of the package, next we jumped over to Jason's computer for the second half of the package. We were then back to Alex's studio section and for him to introduce Katie's live section and then finally onto the interview with Katie.

Helen said she liked it and it was really fun. She said she could tell what the story was about and why we were making it into a news topic and thought we were doing really well so far. Helen suggested that we should put text on top of the part with the M&Ms as we are using a lot of confusing words all in one go. But we had already thought about that, just hadn't put it on the edit yet. We thought this would work well to help the audience understand the words when we talk about them and as its a fun news production the words will fit in nicely.