(I’ll be referring to the first video of our 3-part documentary as this is what I have been editing)

After showing Kim the rough-cut of our first video, we received the following feedback;

The message of the video is unclear – I understand that the direction of the interview is a bit vague, however, it’s not something that was a result of the selection and omission of the wrong footage. As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, we didn’t quite get the responses we were looking for (even after follow up questions), so the footage I did end up using was essentially all the footage we could use. We did, however, make it clear that the first video would be setting the tone for the following two, and its purpose was simply to lay the emotional foundation down where the viewer could see Alf’s connection to the grasslands under threat. I do still plan on responding to the feedback by adding text, such as statistics, location tags, brief descriptions, etc… to give some context and background information.

I also received feedback about audio quality which I am currently working on (fixing audio pops, levelling audio with music, etc…). Kim suggested to play the music just at the start and end, but as a group, we decided to keep the music going throughout the duration of the video (although I will be lowering the volume) as we felt it was necessary to create the mood we were going for and keep the audience engaged considering the topic may be relatively unappealing to some. The music is also quite simple and subdued, so we don’t think it’ll be too distracting to the interview dialogue.

In terms of what I need to do over the next week, there’s not too much left. I just need to add the text I mentioned before and make adjustments to our credits according to the guidelines on canvas.