CENSORED SWEARING-AMBER

Our documentary plans to use some censored swearing (with a bleep and black bar covering the speaker's mouth).

This extract from wikipedia highlights some use of such censorship on television.

This bleep was found on a free sound download site.

'Bleeping is commonly used on television programs that use profane words that are forbidden to television networks. Adult comedies such as The Office, Seinfeld, Family Guy, American Dad!, occasionally The Simpsons, and especially South Park and Robot Chicken use this process to block strong curses that cannot be used on television, and mainly to air it outside the watershed, or safe harbor. The 2008 series The Middleman, which aired on the ABC Family network, nonetheless included the occasional profanity in dialogue, which was bleeped for humorous purposes (with a black bar superimposed over the speaker's mouth).'

Often documentaries on music channels about celebrities use a comical censored box like this of Paris Hilton. We plan to do a very similar thing but with only a black box over the mouth.

We plan to do this using a feature of Final Cut: keyframing. The black box will be made and then, by pausing each millisecond of Lola's movement in the shot, it will be moved to the new position of her mouth, hence following her mouth to cover it completely.