Editorial decisions for interview

Editorial Decisions 

In our stages of editing our interview, we simply put our footage from our two cameras onto the time line on final cut and then cut from one camera to another to show that we had taken different shots throughout our interview. We had a variety of shots which consisted of over views, close ups, cross fade and many more. Our reason for editing our interview was so that we didn't have any long or awkward pauses through out interview and so that in ran smoothly. We also covered some of cuts by using the razor blade tool, which allowed us to have no obvious cuts.

We included sound to the begging and end of our interview for a number of reasons. The reason we added sound at the start of our interview was firstly so it would draw peoples attention to watching our interview.  We feel that not only would it make our interview look professional but it is a very good way to start an interview.
We also thought it would be a good idea to add the same sound track to the end of our interview to signal that it had finished. This also was the sound in which our credits and titles would appear over.

We included three titles in our interview. 
The first title was to introduce people to the interview the title said "James O' Dricoll "My Life" ". this title was to tell people the name of the person being interviewed and to also give them an insight to what the interview is based around which is james life so we included the title "my life" in the opening title as well. 

The second title was at the end of the interview before the last title this title said

" Many thanks to James O' Driscoll and to Virgin Active Health Club". I included this title at the end to show our appreciation to not only Virgin Active health club for letting us use the facility of there health club on Bath Road in Bickley, but to thank James for allowing us to interview him about his life and career.

The third title we had was right at the end of the interview, this title consisted of

 " By Ryan O' Shea, Megan harcombe, Kristie Bird" we included this as we believed all professional interviews  have credits at the end telling the audience who created the interview, in this case it was three people. I  personally believe that this title is very important to include as it tells the people that this is the end of the interview. 

To the left of this text is an image, this image shows an example of where i decided to cut the sound. I decided to cut the sound so that this section wasn't so boring. James drifted off the question that i asked him so i decided to cut the answer short after a specific word/sentence, i did this as it  wouldn't make it obvious that i had cut his answer short. i then simply switched to the camera view that was a close up of james face, i simply dragged the camera view across so that it looked as though we was simply changing camera view, not where i had cut the sound.  I did this throughout the editing stage of this interview.

Interview evaluation

Interview Evaluation

Overall I am really pleased with our interview. I feel that it is appropriate and entertaining to a wide variety of people. Are interview is mainly based around James and his life of being the only blind personal trainer, not only is this an interesting subject but it also gives people an opportunity to see how James copes and about himself of a day to day basis working at a personal trainer and Virgin Active gym in Bromley.
We used two cameras to film our interview to make it more interesting for our viewers so that we could change from one angle to another, we also added in short clips of James working out to our interview to make it more entertaining as well as just listening to James answer our questions which we had prepared for him.
I was very pleased overall that James responded to our questions well and always gave us a lot of detail in his answers, this made myself and Ryan also feel very confident to ask him other questions which we thought of at the time rather than just the question we had prepared. James was willing for us to ask him  any questions what we came up with and could cross any sort of subjects about his personal life, career, future goals and what he has found difficult over the years.
When going to film part of interview on a day in which we had set, James unfortunately couldn't get back from London in time due to diversions of london transport, this wasn't done intentionally so myself and Ryan had to re schedule for the next day, unfortunately i was going to see my nan in hospital so i was unable to make it, however Ryan said it would be fine for him to set up and film the interview which i was very thankful for.
Overall I am very pleased with our interview and have enjoyed working and editing on our interview together as a team with Ryan.

I have a handful of questions in which we asked James that we thought were good and bad questions.

My first question that I feel was not our best was ' What does it feel like to be a celebrity'?
The reason why i feel that this was one of our weaker questions was because James was a bit unsure of what to answer, there was a bit of a long pause and as he didn't really class himself as a celebrity he sort of gave us a one word answer which wasn't really the response we wanted. Apart from this question all of our other responces were brilliant! One of our best questions we asked were 'Will you ever let being blind stop you from doing anything'? Myself and Ryan could not believe the amount of depth that James went into about this questions. Another question in which we received a great response was,
'Do you think your daughter has been effected in anyway growing up by her father being blind'?
This was one of our strongest questions in which we asked James, this question was very emotional for James to answer, this will make our audience watching our interview see how hard it is for those who have children and who have a terminal unexpected illness like James. A question in which i felt would inspire people watching our interview was 'Have you set yourself any life goals'? James went into a lot of detail in telling us that anyone can achieve what they want if they put their mind to it, i feel that by James saying this it will give people who are watching our interview a chance to succeed in anything that they want to do in life.

Production log for interview

Production Log

09/02/2013 This was our first meet with james. This was a very successful meet as james agreed to be interviewed by us. The down fall that we had from this meet was that james had no secure dates that he could offer us to film this interview but gave us his number so that we could contact him during the week to see when he next have an available slot at the gym where he isn't personal training.



16/02/2013 This was our second meet with james. This meet consisted of us talking through with james how our interview will go and the type of questions that he wouldn't mind being asked. james' response was really good as he didn't mind us asking him anything, this allowed us to come up with many interesting questions that will make our interview interesting and entertaining.


02/03/2013 This was our third meet with james. This meet consisted of filming part of our interview and to film james working out. This was a successful meet as we managed to get part of our interview and we managed to film james working out. The down fall to this meeting is that we didn't film our whole interview meaning that our lighting and sound will be different in each interview it will be very hard to edit the sounds together.


23/03/2013 This was our forth and final meet with james. This meet consisted of us filming the rest of our interview. it was a very successful meeting as we managed to film a very entertaining interview. it was successful as i managed to set up two camera and managed to ask him questions at the same time which to me is a massive achievement. 

Location for interview

Location Recce 

As our interview was based around James and his personal trainer life, we thought that it would be a perfect idea to film the interview in the Virgin active gym located in bromley. This would be a good idea as well because this is where James spends most of his life working as a personal trainer.

There are a number of places at the gym in which we could choose where to film our interview, but we can to a final decision to film our interview in the glass box room located on the second floor of the gym above the swimming pool and spa area. After viewing our chosen location in the gym to film our interview, we realized that it was really loud and noisy from the other people using the gym. To overcome this we needed to set a date where we would be able to block off this section of the gym to film our final interview, otherwise there would be disruptive noise throughout our interview which would no be professional.

Overall i feel that we made a brilliant choice for deciding to film our interview here.

Risk assessment

Concept pitch

Concept Pitch

We pitched our final idea explaining to our class mates and teacher how we would make our advert appealing and entertaining for our target audience.
We presented our idea via a powerpoint in which we covered many topics such as, our chosen charity, what we want to happen in our advert, who our advert is targeted at and many more.

Our chosen charity is Teenage Cancer Trust. We chose this charity not going because it is many aimed at people my own age, but also because i am surrounded by people effected by cancer in some way or form everyday in a day to day basis. I also think it is very important how we can help people learn about preventing cancer and raising money for research. We used the cancer trust website to look at the information that have to give on the charity.

I feel that this was very useful for us a group as we received some positive and negative feedback for our idea for our advert. We were told our advert needs spicing up to make it more appealing, by this we thought we could add color and text to brighten it up a bit so it didn't look as bland.
As our idea was inspired by an advert already using flip-cards, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce hands as this would be more entertaining and professional.
We also thought it would look a lot more precise when positioning our flip-cards for our animation.

Once again by pitching our final idea and receiving feedback really helped us to up our final idea and produce a brilliant advert for our charity.

Proposal

Idea

 Our idea is for our advert to contain the Teenage Cancer Trust logo at the begging and end of the advert and in-between this to have a hand this is opening and closing. Every time it opens there will be a different picture of someone the charity has helped fight cancer, the picture are in three different colours, red, dark blue and light blue this is so that it relates back to the Teenage Cancer Trust clours. The location of our advert is at Ravenswood School in an animation classroom.

Purpose

The purpose of our advert is to show teenagers out there that this charity is there to help them. We also want people to see this advert and to be more aware of cancer, we want to keep this advert simple but to the point, the main point is we are here t help. We are here to fight cancer with you; you are not on your own.

Key Content

 The length of our animation is 20 seconds. In these twenty second we have a hand openg and closing and every time the hand closes and opens a new picture is there, we want this to seem as though the person had cancer the charity has helped them and now they have overcome cancer. We have a variety of shots in our animation. The shots we have is a close up at the begging and end of our animation that is a close up of the logo and for the rest of the animation we have an eagle eye over view tilted shot of the animation/set.

character sketches

In my final animation piece, we do not use any type or form of characters. Our animation just consist of a hand opening and closing with pictures appearing of people who our charity has helped over the years. We use cut out pictures to do this. We use cut outs for not only our pictures but our logo and charity name. We felt that is we used characters in our advert then it would appeal to our target audience thats why we have chosen to just use cuts outs with a moving hand, to look more professional.