Week Eight - Rock Climbing Documentary Review (21/03/13)

In todays session, the main focus of the session was to review our rock climbing documentary fine cuts. We started off by talking about any technical problems that people have. Some of the problems that came up and we will discuss in the sessions were:

• Lighting - getting it right
• Scratch Disks
• Sound Issues
• HD Import
• Exporting
• Go Pro Footage
• Track Laying

After that, we were given some more research topics for us to look into, these topics where:

• DCP File Format
• Blooddrop - Vimeo Short Film
• The Films of Joseph Losey
• Adam Curtis Documentary Work

We then starting looking at the fine cuts of the rock climbing documentaries. One of the things that cropped up before my screening was labelling clips professionally. The group told not to use a bin called 'Delete' or use silly names for footage. We were told that we need to keep our footage named correctly so that if anybody else was to take over as editing, they would be able to understand where the cut was up to and where to find the footage they need.

I was very happy with the feedback that myself and Lewis received. Chris give some great feedback saying that we had created a very good piece of work, the sound mixing was great and our technical skills were very good too. There were a few minor issues that I noticed whist watching the film back that I would like to change, such as a section where there wasn't much sound and a fade in one of the music tracks. Some of the feedback that we got was:

• The first music track on the edit should fade out during the shot of him putting his t-shirt on and something else should come in.
• The end of the second music track should fade on a beat and also the fade between the wind and the interview should be longer.
• We had two endings to the piece and would work a lot better if we ended on the shot of the climber being interviewed like we were originally going to. 

Overall, I am very happy with the feedback that we were given and I am looking forward to using the feedback to improve the film and get a final fine cut finished.