Editing an Interview

 Summary

This project involved learning how to edit a documentary through editing a thirty minute interview clip into a less than three minute film. I started with watching the videos about editing interviews. Then I watched the interview all the way through. I wrote down what questions I wanted to include in the video. I then inputted all the video into premiere, cut out the questions, and cleaned them up. Then I put them together and they B-roll video over them. I exported the video and uploaded it to youtube.

Terms and Concepts Covered

•  ctrl+k: cut
• q: delete
• cut out redundancies
• inpoint and outpoint to delete
• cut out ums ahs
• Crossfade if sound is integrated into word
• cut out statements directed to interview question
• 20:00 3 point editing
• 31:00 morph cut
• 38:00 color grading

Collating Files and Storyboard

• Question
  • Creative process
    • Finding the love
  • Cut away to both music videos
    • Relevant scenes over relevant information
• Question 2
  • Greatest aspiration
    • Production company
    • Fining a family
  • Cut away to bad for you sketch
    • Shot of actor talking
• Question 3
  • Will it all be worth it
    • Personal change
    • hard to write a story without human aspect
  • Cut away to music video clip
    • fade at the end to clip
    • relevant to the feeling of the interview

Project Skills Evidence

What I learned

During this project I learned even more about editing in Premiere Pro. One, I finally learned how to use a morph cut well by placing it over clips where the actor is not talking. I learned ow to efficiently cut out “ums” and “ahs” from clips, and how to mask the cuts with other clips if they were too noticeable. I learned how to piece together clips from an interview to flow with a narrative that makes the video enjoyable, and I learned how change the export settings of a video in the export window.