From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Building scenes with B-roll - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Building scenes with B-roll
Once you have laid out your main audio foundation in your scenes, it's time to begin supplementing video footage to help tell your story. This supplemental video footage or B-roll serves multiple purposes. Not only does it enhance your narrative, but it also helps to both cover up and smooth out the jump cuts and chopped up audio that inevitably results from the construction of your radio edit. Now you want to make sure that when you use B-roll, it helps set the scene, that it adds further detail and enhances your story. Don't use it to just show exactly what's being said. This gets monotonous and uninteresting pretty fast. So try to work to engage the viewer, rather than spoon-feed the viewer. So I have my radio edit of my Introduction. This beginning part right here is where BD is talking about this growing, changing, exciting movement, basically the farm to table movement and then we have a few talking heads at the farmers market and in restaurants talking about it as well. So I…
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An overview of the rough cut process3m 38s
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Making the paper edit3m 9s
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Using a two-column script3m 33s
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Assembling the radio edit7m 15s
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Building scenes with B-roll9m 30s
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Editing process footage6m 29s
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Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas8m 20s
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Adding natural and environmental sound6m 11s
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Correcting audio6m 22s
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Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit5m 29s
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