Answer Compilation Sequences

Over the past two weeks, I have been editing a compilation of the best answers from the USA interviews based on different themes on Avid Media Composer. The three sequences I have made are based on the answers to the questions: 'What does love mean to you?'; 'What makes you happy?'; 'What are you scared of?'. These are the three questions me and the director agreed on as having the most interesting range and most engaging answers for a viewer from a comprehensive logged and translated transcript of each interview.

I began by making an assembly for each topic of all the answers I thought best answered the question, as well as considering if they had a big contrast compared with the others selected and if they had been answered in different ways (sometimes the question had been interpreted differently during the interview and interviewees had gone off on a tangent but it was still relevant).

I then moved on to making a rough cut of the answers for each topic, organising them in terms of answers flowing smoothly to display changes in opinion whilst varying the places and gender of the interviewees to ensure an interesting viewing experience.

Finally, I did a fine cut to tidy up the edit, clipping off dead frames at the end of clips and adding subtitles to clips with accents that were challenging to understand or from interviewees that had answered in a language other than English (as instructed by the director).

I had some difficulty with sound differences in each clip, however the director informed me that he would be adding a composed track to each compilation at a later date to solve this.

The compilations will be used during presentations to companies involved in the making of the feature film and will assist in displaying the concept of bringing different ideas from different people and places together into one feature-length portrayal.