The Final Cut

When finalizing Yianni in weeks 13-14, the build up of our relationship with Yianni got expressed through the docu. Having the responsibility as a sound designer, controlling the sound levels, adjusting fad outs and overlays, were after each cut and edit finalized and resulted into a consistent rhythm of audio and footage. After the lecture on the copyright law, I thought the sound and the guitarplay we have captured was captivating enough, to strengthen the character ‘Yianni.Fin’.

The most challenging part of the final edit was how to implement the constructive criticism given, into the narrative we were making of the Brunswick filmmaker. The tasks here were to control and build up the emotion and sympathy for the filmmaker, through sensational events. These contained the true interaction with Yianni and capturing him and not an actor, and his relation ship to Nick and his brother Michael. We asked how we could do this when our tutor Robin remembered us about our audience. To categorize the audience specifically, this is RMIT’s second and third year professional communications and media students aged 19-26. Some perhaps more experienced with life, work and/or university, more than others. After discussing this and sitting together doing the final edits, we knew that the audience wanted to see events they could recognize themselves with, which could also identify the character himself and his real life. We had to remember to not destroy the flow of the audience emotional build up, but strengthen it.

Technical things we faced were handled with group collaboration, questions and help from the FCP soft ware. What we thought looked like a little compression mess up of ‘placement into correct destination’, turned out to be an audio detail, that had been fine all day. Why the audio could not be played after compression was due to that our film had to be burned to the DVD first (this was why one burns the DVD out of the program). Tuesday 5pm, our ‘Yianni.Fin’ was born, 8 minutes and 41 seconds long.