Post-production… easily the worst part for me. I don’t know what kind of editing warrior you have to be to enjoy cutting a documentary together, but it is definitely not me. I can edit a normal video just fine, but a documentary? With voiceovers, interviews, music, and B-roll? Yeah… no.
Editing this project was way harder than I expected. Every few seconds we had to make sure the voiceover matched the B-roll, and then we had to perfectly transition back to the interviewee talking without it looking awkward. It was like putting together a puzzle where half the pieces are missing and the other half don’t even fit. We also had to pick music and fonts, which sounds simple, but it’s actually a whole mission when you’re trying to keep the vibe serious, emotional, and not cheesy. I focused on fonts for the interviews and pre-editing clips so I could send everything to the rest of the group to assemble. Since we had a bigger group, not everyone needed to edit, otherwise the project would’ve turned into pure mess.
For the fonts, I wanted something classy but not too dramatic, something that actually matched the tone of our documentary. I went through so many options until I found one that fit perfectly with the piece. I made sure every interview clip was clean, organized, and ready to be placed into the timeline. It sounds small, but trust me… it took time, patience, and three mental breakdowns.
Picture of font choice:
And honestly, that was basically the whole post-production experience. Long hours, a lot of rewatching the same clips 500 times, fixing tiny mistakes, and trying to make everything flow together. And this was jut my tiny part, shoutout to my group for doing an excellent job to piece it all together. But what matters is we got it done.
This is my last blog regarding this project, and looking back, this whole process was a lot. From brainstorming to filming to editing, we really did everything we could to make this documentary look good. It was stressful, but we actually succeeded, and I’m proud of the work we put in.
Here is my full production log of this documentary:
Also guys side note..
Christmas is in less than 15 days!!!
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