AS Editing

When editing our documentary, I found that we were able to use the cutaway shots we had filmed to our full advantage; we could overlay the audio onto the cutaways to create a more exciting picture for our viewers, and therefore keep them entertained. It added variety to the documentary, and enabled us to expand the use of camera angles etc, all the while keeping the audience's attention. It was very useful when making mistakes while editing, as if audio became out of sync, cutaways could be used to remedy this.

Another factor which was important while editing was our use of captions. As we did not want to use an interviewer - interviewee style when editing, we found that we had made a mistake when asking our interviewee questions, as she had not answered in full sentences. This made it difficult for the audience to recognise what the interviewee's answers meant, so we decided to add captions onto the clips of our student talking. We added the captions using text speak, as we thought this would be an ironic parody of our documentary's content. I feel that we did this successfully, and the documentary still looked professional.

When choosing a soundtrack for our documentary, we found that we needed something that was related to pop culture - as our documentary would be watched by a teenage audience and we were actually studying teenagers during the filming process, we found that we needed a piece of music that was not too centred to one particular genre. Recognising this, we also felt that it would be appropriate to relate the music to the documentary; the topic of mobile phones. Therefore, it seemed clear to us to use the pop hit Telephone by Lady Gaga. As it was recently in the charts, and ironically parodies the content of our documentary, we felt that the choice was appropriate and well made.