EDITING

Throughout our producted I used a range of editing techniques.

During editing our documentary, we experienced only a few problems and this was when editing the questions out of the interviews so they could not be heard. We had to re-do the editing of each interview to make sure each one looked professionally done so that the questions were unheard and the answers from the interviewees flowed. We did this by using the razor tool, which I found particularly easy to use once I got the hang of it. Using the razor tool helped our documentary to flow and make it seem professionally done.

Another editing technique which I used was a cross-fade which was on the visual transitions file, and I put these on the cutaways so that they flowed with the rest of the documentary.

For our opening titles we wanted it to seem as if the letters were typing, so we imported a 'twig breaking' sound file and dragged it underneath each individual letter which we wanted to appear seperatley, and this created a type-writer effect and we chose this as it fitted in with our genre.

To keep our audience entertained, we added music which would be relevant to the genre of our documentary, for example, we added the song Virtual Insanity by Jamiraqui as this is the name of our documentary, and we added Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell as this anchors the slogan of our documentary. We faded the music in and out to make sure that it flowed with the rest of the documentary.

When editing interviews, we added visual name titles so that the audience knew who was being interviewed and why they are relevant to the topic, and this is a code and convention of a typical documentary.

When editing our opening titles, we originally had our documentary starting off with an MP talking about how the world of social networking sites and the internet has turned into a sort of 'big brother' scenario. However, we changed this as the opening titles were far too long than they should have been, so instead we decided to film shots of different social networking sites such as facebook, myspace, bebo and twitter. We added all these shots and made them last atleast 3 seconds and made sure that it flowed with the song Virtual Insanity which would be playing in the background.

I believe that the editing process went successfully as we did not have any major problems, and we made sure our whole documentary ran smoothly so that it fit in with the codes and conventions of a typical documentary.

Below are screengrabs we took as evidence of our editing process.