I thought this might be a good opportunity to address some of the worries I had going into editing about the way we conducted our shoot.

The main concerns being the:
– quality of the footage with the camera that we were using (focus)
– The quality of the audio
– Being able to easily navigate to audio whilst editing

The footage came out really well! for the most part the footage was definitely usable, there were clips that were soft or completely out of focus but we took enough takes for there to be at least one usable/workable shot. There are certain instances where the focusing couldn’t be helped because it was such a shallow depth of field, like in the image below, only half of “Ted” and “Vincent’s” face is in focus.

 

 

The audio was a big problem! It turns out that the lapel microphones were very faulty and wouldn’t record anything! so there are a few files of nothing mixed in with the rest; the only usable audio came from the boom. Luckily they were all grouped so one take was in one folder which had 4 audio tracks in them. This did make it marginally easier to sort through the audio tracks however it was still a hassle opening up the audio tracks to listen for the markers instead of being able to just read it on the still image of the footage. Alas we didn’t do that, next time I will try and be more adamant that we need to add the audio roll to the marker!

This isn’t the end of the world though and we seem to be coping well enough so I shall continue to soldier on.