Editing the 2 minute poetic piece

As we sat down to begin the editing process for the 2 minute documentary, we felt that we wanted our film to feature a combination of grey, mundane looking  shots of the city centre in comparison to vibrant and quirky scenes around the Devonshire Area. We didn't think it could be too difficult to put our vision into a 2 minute structure but we struggled at times to figure out which footage was best left for the 10 minute piece rather than this brief.

As we played around with different pieces of footage to fit in with our narrative structure we decided to begin the film with Lucy; our contributor from Syd and Mallory, talking about the repetitive and plain lifestyle of the city centre. We played her voice over footage of the centre and also included sounds usually associated with high street chains, for example the self scan services in a supermarket. We didn't want to show any contributors' faces in this film so that viewers are keen to find out who the faces are behind the voices in the extended documentary.

As Lucy talks about the Devonshire Area we then showed footage of the independent shops with close ups of old books and records; signifying the variety of style each shop represents. We used these scenes at the end to see a brighter and more vintage theme throughout the area in comparison to the mundane, 'legoland' city buildings. Overall there weren't any major problems with the editing of this 2 minute piece, only difficulty we came across was exporting our final film but we asked a member of Stores for help and they managed to sort out the error for us.