After finishing all of my shoots, I began to edit my film together using the adobe premiere software. I cut out a lot of unnecessary pauses, ums and ars as well as irrelevant pieces of conversation that did not tie in as well as other more applicable and consistent parts. This cutting created a fast paced and interesting piece of work and kept it to just about my time constraints. I ordered each interview to create variety having a young person and then an old person interviewed in order to follow Neale’s genre theory by not keeping everything the same, creating differences to keep audiences intrigued
In order to introduce each culture I began each interview with an image of each nation/regions flag to create a visual preface into each ethnology. To augment this I included a segment of a stereotypical non-diegetic piece of music indicative of each culture. This included traditional bagpipe playing for Scotland, Jersey’s anthem ‘Beautiful Jersey’ sung in our traditional language jerriais, ‘La Bamba’ for Mexico and a Lancashire folk song for Yorkshire, for which I sampled the part with the thickest accent in order to enhance the verisimilitude of the film.
I decided not to edit the colour palate instead opting for a more natural amateurish feel with quality reminiscent of early louis Theroux interviews
Mood board
I include my mood board to remind me of my initial idea for the direction I wish for my film to go, providing a firm link between the dishes and the cultures that they belong to.
Due to camera difficulties including shakiness, blurriness and the accidental inclusion of the books used in lieu of a tripod, some clips, specifically from the interview about Yorkshire is not visually appealing and is in some cases virtually unusable. To fix this I plan to use an J cut technique to allow a voiceover to continue the linear narrative but overcut with archival footage relating to the relevant culture/dish or alternatively just something being discussed.
When reediting my film after publishing the first draft I gathered archival images to add over the film and hide imperfections such a camera shakes and blurriness
I also replaced the flags with more real looking flags with visible movement in order to keep all regions the same as well as adding a sense of verisimilitude.