I'm the Editing Guy.

Seeing that I'm a perfectionist and the only person in our group who likes editing (I'm rather competent at it) I was unofficially made in charge of editing as the other guys, without thinking just left it to me to do. I worked on it with Mathew by my side who was my second in command in terms of quality and he was my second opinion whilst the other two guys were elsewhere engaged. I've had to use Garage Band on the macs which is absolutely fine for piecing together a video of your holiday or a family member's birthday party but it isn't all that great when it comes to doing technologically advanced stuff when making a serious documentary.

I've put in a lot of effort into the editing of the documentary and I'm still not entirely happy with the outcome and there are a few things which I need to address before I can declare it done.

A major problem I've come across is the sound quality on the interview with Barrie Rouse, it's not very loud at all and this could cause potential problems for the audience hearing him, when you have earphones in (on the macs), the sound isn't too bad but generally it's very quiet. This is down to the lack of equipment we have as an external microphone (for the camera or a handheld wireless mic) or a boom mic would have been great.

Enough of my ranting, it's almost done so watch this space. :)

Newspaper Advert

This is the finished product as far as the Newspaper Advert is concerned.

After the other guys made the logo and a rough template, I then "tidied" the advert up by ensuring that all the writing was clear, aligned to the centre and as crisp as it could be, I also created a QR barcode which I implemented to direct people to our potential website which people can access through their Smartphones on the move.

Editing

The editing of the documentary has been rather difficult, we had to cut different parts up of the interview to shorten it and to cut out the gaps and also to relieve the interview of things that weren't relevant to the documentary.

A great proportion of what we had in mind in terms of initial structure changed because of the lack of time we had to record new bits and then put them in.

The Script

Seeing that we are making a documentary, we can't really have a script for the whole thing as the recording of footage is genuine and on impulse.

The only parts that could have a script are the voiceover parts and the recording(s) of the narrator talking directly to the camera and hence the audience.

Our scripts were written just before the recording of them, and I wrote a big proportion of it as I was the person that would be saying it. We had to record just before recording because there was no way of knowing what we would be talking about before that time.

Newspaper Advert Designs

These are some of the designs we have for the advert, we are going to try and replicate this sort of idea on to a computer and see how it works out.

Completed Radio Advert

Yay! The Radio Advert is complete! We've stuck to the original idea of overlapping background music with the voiceover. I had to edit this in Music Editing software 'GarageBand' before exporting as an mp3 file and then linking this to the picture that I made with this Illuminati symbol on 'iMovie'. Doing it this way just makes it easier to upload onto youtube and any other website.

Here is the finished product.

Newspaper Advert Research

The first Newspaper advert was used in the late 1830's with the first ever appearing in a French Newspaper called "La Presse". Newspapers introduced paid adverts so that they could lower prices of newspapers as a whole. And a lower prices meant that it would sell more of it's newspapers, increasing it's readership and ultimately increase profits.

This is an example of a very early newspaper advert. As you can see they have used a drawing and the advert has the name of the company it's logo (possibly the drawing) what they sell and where they are based. This advert doesn't, however, try to convince people to buy their product(s) by using clever motto's or slogans.
Over time, newspaper adverts have evolved into more picture based adverts than it's logo/name orientated forefather's.

The Music For Radio Ad

Me and Mathew decided that the music we will use should be choral as it's usually associated with religion and has a mysterious vibe about it, and seeing that The Illuminati and Freemasonry are sometimes (wrongly or rightly)  thought of as religions and are rather mysterious, we think the type of music fits.

We did however come across a problem. The music tended to get very loud at times which meant that you couldn't hear my voice-over very clearly, I then adjusted the volume and cut bit's of the soundtrack out to create an advert that flowed and that would create that mysterious yet informative ambience that we require.

This is the music for the radio ad.

Radio Advert Recording

I wrote a script for the Radio advert which we then recorded using a microphone linked directly with Garage Band on the iMac. One major problem we stumbled upon is the fact that the microphone only records Mono which means that the recording will come out from only one speaker (in our case it turns out that only the left speaker has any sound).
When Playing this through the earphones the left ear is clear and you can hear all of the voice-over whereas the right ear has little sound and adds an unwanted echoing to the recording.
We recorded with me, and trialled three other people before coming to the conclusion that my voice was the clearest and that it made sense if the narrator of the documentary itself is the same person as the advert voice-over however this doesn't have to be the case.

We also had people walking into the room and talking which prolonged the number of takes and time it took to record the Radio Advert, as we were recording in a school, it isn't ideal but it's something we must endure and overlook.

Radio Ad & Documentary Music

This Morning, Me and Mathew have been working on creating our own music for the radio advert and for the documentary using Garage Band. Currently we are cutting and adding different sounds to create our desired classical and mysterious sound. This music will go in the background for different voiceovers both in advert and in the documentary itself.

Visit to Freemason Lodge

Whilst researching into the Illuminati, me and Mathew came across the fact that Freemasonry had ties and links with the original Illuminati and that many members of the Illuminati were Masons. This led us to push the idea of going to the Freemason's Lodge on the Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton to see if someone there would be willing to give us an interview.

We knew that there may be a strong possibility that they may not be willing to talk to camera and may tell us to leave, so we took a handheld flip camera as well as our normal DSLR just so that if they do refuse to give us an interview that we would have this recorded in true documentary style.

We went to the Lodge on 28th February 2012 and we met a Mr J Barry Rouse who is the Provincial Grand Secretary for the Stafford Region. We had thought up some questions that we would ask the interviewee but Mr Rouse asnwered all our questions in practically 2 questions as he was very thorough with his answers. 

Meeting such a high member of the lodge enabled us to get an in-depth insight into not only the Freemasons as a whole but also in regards to religions, speculations surrounding the Freemasons and about the different ceremonies that take place in the lodges.

We were then given a tour of the Lodge but were asked not to record upstairs where the ceremonies take place because if we were to ever become masons ourselves it would "ruin the experience" although I still don't see how that would be the case.

RADIO ADVERT

Today we have started our planning and writing our radio advert. Radio adverts for documentaries usually have a voiceover as in the documentary itself, this is usually done by the narrator himself and the advert will include some little voice clips from like an interview within the documentary.

The advert also acts as an enticing tool to create awareness and capture the audience's attention as well as informing people of when it is due to come on TV or online.

We have had a heated debate over what the date should be for the end of the advert and we have come to a conclusion that we should do 2 or 3 separate documentary adverts: one with "Thursday (date)", one with "Coming Soon".

Many serious adverts are usually just music and a voiceover whereas the more contemporary pressing matters over politics. religion, race and sex usually have snippets of people being interviewed within the documentary almost in a VoxPop style.