Upon reviewing the interview footage one thing was clear above all else; Mr Huang had a fan. It wasn’t overbearing, but it was certainly present in the footage, and I thank my lucky skittles that it didn’t oscillate. Getting rid of it was pretty simple, but it limits our choices on editing as we now have to put in some form of atmosphere behind every clip using an interview. Won’t be fun, won’t be quick, probably won’t end up destroying the project. I’m going to reconstruct the market sounds based on some clips we got that are pretty clean, We’ll probably have to treat it like we conducted the interview in the market.

Megs friend has agreed to supply us with some music and boy howdy is it a doozy. Depending on how long the video goes we may use all three pieces to set tone, but I definitely have a leaning towards the soft, lazy, piano opening as Mr Huang describes his day. I’ve been popping in and out of the edit suites to make sure all the clips are ready and logged, and that we’re in a good place to make use of the resources we have left. At time of writing there is perhaps one last day of shooting available to us, which means that the next week is going to be spent filling in the gaps, perhaps storyboarding the remaining required shots while putting together a rough cut.

We’ve also completely transcribed the interview clips; having 4 mandarin speakers cut down the time required for the activity massively, leaving us sprawled over 4 edit bays as I processed audio, Lydia and Denise transcribed half the interview, Jenny and Even translated the other half, and Meg started on what will become our rough cut. I’ve got a good feeling about where this is going for us