Digital News Unit: Post-Production: Editing the Food Festival Footage

Originally our plan today was to film our in-studio presenter pieces with Jasmin but unfortunately she didn't get back to us in time.

This left us with a free day so I took to finishing the script for our Banksy news package and working on editing the footage we shot at the Broadstairs Food Festival.

I placed what clips we had in the order the script has it as. 

After doing so I had an idea of overlaying the voice-over mentioning the demonstration with Chetna Makan with a shot of the demonstration and then the shot of the interview: which the voice-over would then transition into by dropping the volume and increasing the interview's.

I've seen this method before in news but it's usually reserved for packages; which was an issue as this report was an O.B. I thought it would add a little something interesting visually as opposed to shot-ptc-shot-ptc etc. 

One issue with the voice-over parts was that we filmed them inside the festival; it would make much more sense to record them inside a car or a quiet environment with virtually no background noise. A voice-over shouldn't have any background noise.
Another issue is that some of the voice-over sections are split: take for example the section about the volunteers:

This was meant to be done in one take, instead it was done as two separate clips meaning that when it comes to placing the voice-over into the project, the background noise is going to be different; breaking any continuity that the piece has.

Despite these issues I have put together a basic cut using the footage we have but this is a strong lesson to learn and should hopefully not happen again.