The last couple of days were really tedious and annoying, because we only needed to do a couple of simple things yet it seemed to take ages. Hardly any of the tape decks were working so it took us ages to find one that would allow us to capture footage from it. When we finally managed to do it, we realised that some of the footage would be really awkward to put into the film, as we would have to insert both the audio and images, meaning that we would have to move all of the footage that we have already edited along the timeline, and re-sync everything so we decided to use some different footage that we only had to use the visuals of.
We watched through the documentary and made sure that it ran smoothly, and we used the dissolve effect a couple o times, to get rid of the bits where the footage jumped between shots. We added in the images from the subjects wedding and honeymoon, to use as cut always, as their honeymoon story is too long, and we didn’t want the audience getting bored of just interview footage.
It was then time to add some credits and a title, this proved to be trickier than we imagined, and the title was pretty simple once we worked out what we were doing. But we wanted to put a box on the left hand side of the credits, and have some video footage of the band playing in it. We couldn’t even get the scrolling credits to work, never mind trying to add the picture in picture effect. After trying to do scrolling credits and failing, and then trying to have flashing credits and also failing on that, we decided it would just be easier to only have one page of credits. It was then time to get on to adding the picture in picture effect. We expected doing that to be easy, but it took us at least an hour to work out how to do it, and it was so simple it was frustrating when we realised how to do it. It took a little while making sure that the box was in exactly the same place, for each bit of band footage, so it didn’t jump but once it was done we were really pleased with it.
After that it was finished and it was just time to export it, we compressed it and that was really easy to do so we thought that maybe the rest would be, apparently not. Again, none of the tape decks would work, so we kept trying to do a digital cut and it looked as though it was working, but it wasn’t as there was no footage on the tape. We eventually managed to get it to work, after using 4 different tape decks and were glad to know that all we had to do was put the footage on DVD and then that was it. That didn’t prove to be too tricky as Joe did it.
Overall I was glad to get these days over with, I was glad with the overall look of the documentary and I feel very proud of it, although I don’t like the way that on the DVD, the documentary starts to play on the start up menu, I find that a bit pointless and annoying.
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