Game footage over interview

As a group, we have filmed various interviews with a parent, students, professional video gamer, and teachers. However the interview with Nick Wearing, a parent of two, was almost ten minutes in length, therefore we were finding it difficult to make use of it in the documentary. However, despite the duration, Nick made some very effective and helpful points about the topic that expressed his own opinion very clearly, therefore we felt it was important to use the footage. Tom then began experimenting on premiere pro to try and find a way that we could include Nicks interview by cutting and pasting the effective points he made without it being visible to the audience. We resulted in using in game footage from Fifa to divert the attention from Nick's changing position in his chair. We then altered with the sound to make the voiceover seem like Nick was making these points one after another, and not separately in the space of ten minutes. By using the software we were able to make very helpful use of Nick's interview, as the important answers he gives are presented to the audience in the space of about thirty seconds.

Whilst this was an effective outcome of the editing, we also learnt that interviews accompanied by footage is a widely used convention in documentaries. For example in Super Size Me, a documentary film directed by Morgan Spurlock following the drastic effects of fast food, Spurlock uses various footage over interviews that often supports or relates to what they are saying. For example in his expert interviews with nutritionists he would often include footage of Children eating healthy food or playing outdoors to support the points being made. We have used a similar technique, by including the Fifa footage we are providing effective evidence of the information that our interviewee is expressing.