Editing The Bath Sparkles Footage

We reviewed the production material the day after the shoot and made a number of decisions and changes. The Audio we had managed to capture was nowhere near the quality we needed and often cheering, clapping and other background noise was present over the music being played. We decided that we would source the music ourselves and cut it in time with the models and the shots.

We didn’t realise the sheer scale of the footage until we looked back through it and found we had obtained around three and a half hours footage collaboratively. Cutting this down to a five to eight minute piece was a daunting task but we decided to edit it all together rather than our own retrospective tapes. We also found that having this much footage for something that needs to be cut so quickly made it easier to find the footage we needed. Due to the amount of footage we were working with, we made the joint decision of cutting out the footage of the bands and dance sets that were used as fillers between the fashion show, and to concentrate only on the models and the clothes they were wearing.

Some of Camera 3’s shots were quite unsteady because the lack of a tripod, which we couldn’t use because we needed freedom to move, so we had to review that material carefully and a lot of the shaky shots were cut instantly.

The problems with the lights that were mentioned in the production notes also gave us some shots that were very dark and couldn’t be used at all during editing, so were cut out after reviewing.

We also used a program called Livetype to create flashy subtitles for each of the fashion designers featured in the show.