When assembling the rough cut, we saw issues straight away. Mostly with how many jokes we had tried to add into the footage. They just weren't working and with the entire cut together, was more boring than funny which was really effecting the video. I think going back to what Steve Coombs said on script writing. He said you either have to have 1 swear word or a million swear words in a script. But not when it comes to jokes. Comedy is hard to write and thankfully, we were able to cut out a lot of the jokes we had added into the edit and smooth it out. By this point we had also gotten Simon to create Idents, (Simon's blog post on Graphics) We spoke together on making these and we wanted some funny idents which could work in with the branding. We ended up agreeing on having one of the little characters being chased by a Pac man which is actually student loans. We also agreed on having an ident where it looks like a disco with the graduates.
Below is our rough cut:
The main feedback on this edit was the Live interview. The audio just isn't good enough, we're losing Emma's answers which is lowering the quality of the interview. Helen also pointed out that the cut aways don't work because this is meant to be live so we need to change this. It needs to be smoother and she suggested having a pre-recorded bit at the beginning which would have George pointing out the traffic as it would let us get away with the issues of the sound slightly.
Helen also pointed out we've got 3 packages. A live broadcast and 2 pre-recorded sections where as we only needed 1 pre-recorded section. Which did help as the Top Tips wasn't flowing as fast and as nicely as we wanted it to. Meaning it was dragging. We ended up agreeing to cut the entire section which also frustrating due to the level of work it took to get the footage, was better for the edit.
Helen also found that the structure of the programme didn't work. But she liked the idea of putting George's 'graduation photo shoot' as the opening which would actually work as he introduces the programme and the DIY section. It would all work there together but it did mean we needed to reshoot Jack's Green screen to make sure it worked and flowed together.
Fine Cut
With this section, George took on the live interview and worked through it with Fergus and managed to get the audio to a much better quality. We added in the voice over with George which does help with the interview. This is all we can do to improve the edit now so next we just need to add in the graphics. We also did the new structure and it does make the production move much more smoothly. I had to add in some music to make the DIY and LED light sections work and bright up the brightness on the LED disco and the Projector section. I also added in a cover of The Lion King Song so that we weren't breaking copyright. I also worked in all the backgrounds for this edit and I feel it's all working well now.
After adding in some music and sound effects it's coming together. Although it all still needs work I can see the parts I need to fix.
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