Here at RedEye Post, we work with the segment Lift Every Voice, which is a Gospel segment hosted by Fonzworth Bentley on Black Entertainment Television, or BET. I’ve watched the segment a few times on Sunday mornings (if I found myself not in a church service). A new project that has blossomed from our partnership is that we have started creating CRFs, or Cutting Room Floors, for the show. CRFs are excess interview footage at the end of the segments. For Lift Every Voice, BET films about 30 minutes of interviews between Fonzworth and the special guest, some of whom have been Kevin Hart, Tasha Page, JJ Hairston, and Tatyana Ali– but only 8 minutes of it is usable. So we at RedEye have to assist in bringing forth the best footage and audio of the preferred eight minutes. With this project, I’ve started doing what I have a passion for: postproduction.
Want to know how I craft the CRFs? Well to begin with, I watch and review the footage. Do this to get a grasp of who’s talking at what points. This helps when deciding which camera view would optimize the speaking point. There is usually a choice between the host, guest, or a two shot. Between audio and video, I usually work with the latter first. I like seeing the visual product. Cutting up the video and switching between camera views is the fairly easy and more creative part of the process, in my opinion. I’ve had some challenges with fixing levels on the different tracks of audio, though. I’m only used to working with at most two tracks of audio, but CRFs usually have six or seven total tracks of audio. I was relieved to hear that most of the tracks wouldn’t be of any use. So then all I had to do was weed out those and figure out which two mics the two people were using. If there were pops in the audio, it was up to me to blade the track and find a better track to use in replacement of the disabled one. In the past two days I’ve learned some new tips and shortcuts that have proved very handy in completing these mini projects.
Once I figure out what the week’s going to happen upon, then I can figure out what I will be able to do this weekend.
Once the CRFs are complete and approved, they can potentially be posted on the BET website.
Some Excess From Last Week
Me and V were sent some photos from the National Park Trust event from last week. We were taking photos on the seventh floor of the Newseum, where it overlooks the Capitol Building, when a photog came by. Look at us!
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