Another brief is done my friends, and a lot has been learnt. Of all the people, my Grandma was the perfect choice. I was hoping to capture her sense of humor, which is a massive part of who she is in my eyes. I found that the editing process was fairly effective, even with syncing audio. I have to admit though, a pretty large weakness of the video is that I had to edit down the content to a fairly large extent. Grandma had given me around 5 minutes worth of story for me to edit into around 2. Unfortunately in this was the middle bulk of the story, which is what happened on the plane with the ‘after dinner mints.’ Also I felt the found footage intercutting was tricky to be creative with, and at some points it feels forced. I decided that to make it feel more personal I decided to keep the sounds to be limited to just Grandma, and not adding music I think was also pretty effective. I realize that the audio isn’t perfectly flowing from one sequence to the next, and that’s something I still have to keep practicing.

I learnt how not to edit video and external audio together though, and for next time I’ll definitely sync the bulk video and audio together, export it and then edit it. I wasted way too much time separately attaching audio to edited video. I also found that intercutting the found footage video can seem slightly jarring when it’s included for the sake of it. I learnt that sometimes you have to sacrifice different sections of the story, which I’d really like to include, has to happen otherwise you can get carried away.

Finally I think that the entire process of recording audio/video simultaneously was really helpful, it’s an obvious part of making things but I’m looking forward to learning how to make the final result better. Having separate audio continuously playing whilst intercutting with different imagery is also an artistically cool thing I’ve learnt from this assignment.