Using a two-column script

Once things are looking good on paper, you may want to get started with your Radio Edit,…working out the audio foundation for each scene in your documentary. And that's fine.…If you're someone that just needs to get started, then by all means do so and skip to the next…movie in this chapter.…However, as you've no doubt caught on by now organization and preparation are a common theme…for effective documentary editing.…So I thought I'd throw one more big thing your way in case you wanted to really get…everything inline for your edit.…I'm talking about writing a script, specifically a two column script.…

This is common practice if you have transcripts of all of your interviews.…Now a two-column script is a documentary script with the left column tells us what we see…and the right column tells us what we hear.…Now this is just one possible format, but it's the one that we'll be exploring in this course.…So based on the Paper Edit we know we're going to need an intro and a conclusion and the…four main scenes in-between.…