Editing the documentary
I’ve returned from filming in Colombia and now I have 22 tapes (about 16 hours) of video to edit.
The first step is to get an idea of what you have. I fast forwarded through most of the tapes, and used my digital camera to make screenshots of the TV. I then printed out the screenshots (using Windows XP’s printing wizard makes it very easy) per scene. I laid out all the scenes to have an easy way of discussing them and getting an overview. Think of it as a high-level sitemap.
Next I will have to watch all 16 hours and make a detailed log: at this timestamp, a man with donkey passes. This timestamp, the interviewee talks about X. I expect this to take 2 weeks, I’ll report back. And yes, it’s like a content inventory. Yey.
January 12th, 2005 at 8:41 am
this is great but dont is this the prosess that all film makers would go through and
is there a shorter method of tackling so much footage?
January 12th, 2005 at 8:49 am
i am making a documentary for my unit 4 media production right now i am at
the stage of research. i am hoping to film at least 20hrs of footage, but i am short on time as we only get about six
weeks for the whole project and all the students choos to slap any footage together and come up with five mins of crap. i i am hoping to break away from this a produce somthing creative, i thought of doing a documentary because its true to life. mr van dijck if there is any advise you could give me please do so.
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:53 am
hey its good
but you work on it.
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Im doing a documentary on The Death of Rasputen and the royal family of the Czar of russia Ivan IV
December 5th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
I’m currently working on a documentary about myspace and we’ve gathered at least ten interviews and all of them had to be transcribed. Luckily the team is large enough for the work to have been distributed.
I like the editing process. It’s interesting to read through the transcripts and see what has been said.
It’s due in two weeks.