Editing

Editing the interview took a couple of sessions to do. The most difficult thing was reducing the recording to just one minute, all three of us felt that the interview with Alastair went so well that it could all be used. Nonetheless we managed to edit it down to a minute in the end.

To begin with we decided just to edit the audio down to a minute before adding any addition sounds or stills to the piece. We all took turns at editing sharing the role, as we had done throughout the process.

Once the piece was edited down to a minute we added the atmospheric sound and the images we had sourced. Although following our original plan to show stills of Alastair, to begin with we detoured of this slightly by including images that related directly to what was being said. However, after referring back to the module handbook felt this was a too literal display of what was being said. We decided to go back to the original idea and use the images of Alastair in his bands, Geriatric Unit and Endless Grinning Skulls. We would of liked to include some samples of punk music, including some of Alastair's bands music, to allowing listeners who are not familiar with the genre to hear it. However, this would not be music/sound that we have recorded ourselves. It was also not possible to arrange Alastair's band together for a live recording, this would have been a way round having music in the video. As it proved too difficult to include music we decided to focus more closely on making sure the interview itself was clear and the focus point of the project. That being said we did include an atmospheric track from the interview location and also a recording of the atmosphere in Highcross, this was layered underneath the main interview audio, and just gives a sense of depth for when there are quiet or silent section of the interview.