From the course: The Art of Video Interviews

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Challenge: Edit down interview footage into a two-minute rough cut

Challenge: Edit down interview footage into a two-minute rough cut

From the course: The Art of Video Interviews

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Challenge: Edit down interview footage into a two-minute rough cut

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Amy: Well, you've certainly heard a lot from us on things to do to make your interviews great. But now we've got something a little fun for you to try. Rich: Yeah, we want to let you get hands on with one of the actual interviews. So, in the download files, if your lynda.com membership includes it, you will find an actual raw interview. And the idea here is, we'd like you to go ahead and take that interview, and cut it down. Now, this particular interview was just a few questions. And we'd like to you to get it down to a good two minute interview. You don't have any B role, that will come later. Just focus on the initial edit where you tell the story, and the goal here is that you going to take an interview that we did with Gretchen and she's talking about a new dance studio that she's opening up. This is just a rough cut, don't worry abut perfection, you don't have any B role, just get it down to a nice 90 seconds to two minutes, because it's a web video and people just don't have…

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