The semester is drawing to a close now and Lauren and I are putting the finishing touches to our documentary. I'm so proud of what we have achieved together.
I sent an almost-complete version of our documentary to one of our interviewees over the weekend (Dr Johnny Ilan at the University of Kent) and we have his approval, so it was comforting to get a positive review from somebody outside of the course.
This afternoon we will be re-recording the commentary here at the studios. I recorded some at home on an SM58 microphone, and it sounded fine at first when I imported it into Audacity, but in Final Cut Pro it sounded distorted and kept 'popping'. So today we will be re-recording the commentary using a radio mic to get a clean, crisp sound that hopefully won't distort once it is imported.
We've also been meddling with music, adding an instrumental version of Ben Folds' 'You Don't Know Me' as a bed and mixing Lily Allen's 'The Fear' into the opening titles. Not only do these songs sound good, but the meanings behind them also fit in well with our documentary.
After we've recorded the commentary this afternoon, we'll be making sure our sound mix is of the highest quality possible. We'll do as much mixing as we can in Final Cut Pro itself, but as the programme is primarily designed for video editing rather than audio, I'll import the entire documentary's soundtrack into Garageband where I can compress it and make sure everything is at the right sound level (you can do this in Final Cut Pro but you can only compress individual clips rather than the entire soundtrack, thus making accurate compression impossible).
Once the soundtrack has been compressed, we can import it back into Final Cut Pro as one long sound file. Then - fingers crossed - we'll be finished and ready for deadline day on Thursday!
(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)
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