Editing Decisions:
Myself and Joe took on the role as editor. As it was heavily interview based we included a range of stills and created a couple of montage style moments as well as general cutaways to give the viewer a break from the talking.
We didn't want it to be as simple as having one solid block of interview shown for a long duration of time, on a specific question, so we decided to mix our interviewee's answers and block them together in terms of subject rather than the order of the people talking. We also wanted to hide the documentary makers presence by not including our director (Emma) asking the questions, and instead having the interviewee frame the question within their answer.
Most of the way through we used the music/soundtrack to fit around our footage clips, however during the montages we tried to edit them in sync with the beat of the Beatles music.
Camera Decisions:
Maz was our camera person, filming mainly with the aid of a tripod, but also handheld in some parts. She included many pans, location shooting, long takes, etc to conform to the conventions of typical documentaries
Sound Decisions:
Our sound person (Olivia) recorded the majority of our sound separately, mainly using a boom. We also got Joe's friend to perform their version of Beatles songs which we used as a soundtrack in some parts. We had some difficulty in lip syncing during the edit, this could have been prevented by making a distinct clap sound on both the camera and for recording the sound, this would then have enabled us to accurately match up the sound with the footage easier/quicker.
Producer/Director Decisions
Hannah our producer enabled everything ran smoothly on the day, and arranged the interviews in the Cavern Club.
Emma, our director had a very clear plan of what kind of structure she would like our documentary to follow, guiding us all throughout. She translated all the interviews into a script, and from this we were able to get a clearer structure.
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