Mockumentary Editing

Directions

Your combined group video must be under 60-75 second. In addition, you will add 10-20 seconds worth of bloopers at the end of your video making the total video 85-95 seconds. If you don't have many funny ones, then make it only 10 seconds, don't feel you have to use all the 20 if they are not the best bloopers.

Start editing your footage in your group. Each member should edit their own video on their Macbook using iMovie. Divide up the work so that one student edits part of it on their Macbook and the other student edits the other half. Later when you are done, one student will export their video and add it to the other partner's iMovie timeline to combine it. For the video requirements (e.g. cuts, shots angles), you do not have to have them per person but just per group.

A suggested division of editing is the following:

Partner 1: Act I (Background), Act II (Conflicts & Climax

Partner 2: Act III (Falling Action), Credits and Bloopers

Review your footage and make sure that it follows the composition.

Don't forget to edit the intro according to the previous filming requirements:

Intro Clips: Before the interview at the beginning of your video, start with a rack focus of something in the foreground and then focus on the main actor in the background in an extreme wide establishing shot using the prop and doing what the mockumentary topic is about, then cut to a closer wide shot of them in another pose with the prop or action

Then add an appropriate intro with background music from Ben Sounds (Corporate/Pop section) to your intro clips before the interview starts and fade it out when the main actor starts the interview. Notice at the bottom right of the site that there are many pages of Corporate/Pop to download.

In editing, if you cut one of your interview clips, make sure to hide the cut with a cutaway to b-roll so you don't see any sharp jumps in your interview.

Edit the bloopers and titles according to the directions.

By the end of class, take a screenshot like the one below showing your edited timeline and one of your interview clips at the top right (make sure it follows the composition rules). You should have some b-roll footage on top of your interview clips. You do not have to finish editing and you can finish your edits next class but you still need to post by the end of class.