The
first stepGather the footage for each of the three mini movies based
on interview locations, and edit out my voice. Here I had over thirty
minutes of footage.
So
for each location, I lined up the two cameras that I had, plus the
audio recording. The only difficulty there was that at each location,
I had begun audio recording much earlier than photography. This was
because the mic was set up on his body, while he put the recorder in
his pocket. That meant that there were several minutes of audio
recording before the video recording began, and so syncing them up
took a while to find the actual beginning of the photography in the
audio.
One
thing that made this a whole lot easier is that the iPhones recorded
audio on their own, and so it was easy to hear where the audio was
supposed to sync.
However,
there was a quirk that I didn't expect to happen. While I might sync
the audio from the Zoom recorder to the iPhone footage, as time went
along, the audio and picture would slowly get out of sync. This was a
frustrating development, and I wasn't sure if it was something that I
had done incorrectly, or some technical problem between the two
recordings. I suppose the source of the problem wasn't really that
important since I developed a method to fix this. After every couple
of minutes of footage, I would simply split the footage, both the
audio and the picture, and slip the audio back by a fraction of a
second. I don't know if this is the most technically sound solution,
but it worked for me. To be sure, I always slipped the audio back at
moments of silence, or times when I was asking the questions, since I
knew that I was going to edit my voice out in the final cut.
Another
oddity of the audio recording is that it was recorded in stereo
instead of mono. So when I first heard it, it would only play in my
left ear. This was annoying, so I had to go into a sound editing
program and make all of the audio mono. This was an annoying step,
and I wonder if I could have changed some setting on the Zoom
recorder so that I could just record mono from the beginning.
After
getting all my footage in order, I then edited out all of my
speaking. This produced a lot of small clips of Ramon's answers to
the questions. I did this for all of the three interview shots. Then
after listening to all of footage like this, I decided that there
were four main themes that I could divide all of the footage into.
First, when he talked about New York City life; second when discussed
his personal history before New York; third his work as a musician;
and fourth when he discussed his family.
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