Starting to Edit

Lauren and I started putting together a rough cut last week. At first it seemed like a very daunting task, as we are going to have to arrange over an hour's worth of footage into a ten minute documentary. We started off by putting all the footage into separate bins for each interviewee and their various sequences/GVs.

We already had the archive footage in place at the start of our timeline, so that was a good starting point to work from. We cut each interview answer into separate clips to make them easier to arrange, and began to piece together sequences. After our lecture with Helen this afternoon, I am confident that we're on the right track.

This afternoon, I have been working on our script. I have transcribed the interview clips we shall be using to update our draft script, so now it represents exactly what is in our documentary so far. I have also created a post-it version which we can play with in order to get the right structure.

We have one more day of shooting until we've gathered all the footage we need. This will take place on Thursday. We're going to take a trip to Chatham and film the High Street, and maybe gather some vox pops. We were going to film a youth group in the evening, but we may have enough different characters. We'll make a final decision tomorrow.

(x-posted to jo coulson's uca blog)