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Building a stringout

Building a stringout

From the course: Video Foundations: Interviews

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Building a stringout

As you continue preparing your material for the editor, the next step after you've got your transcripts in hand is to go through the transcripts and highlight all the best soundbites. In order to make this an accurate roadmap to our material, we need to post a few signss as we go in the form of topic edits. So as you read through each question and answer, take a moment to add a bold title above each section listing the topic discussed below it. For the first past, you can do this analog on paper with highlighters, but ultimately, I recommend that you do it digitally by opening your transcript in a program like MS Word or Pages. Now you can easily change and rearrange your selections or share your paper selections with an editor, client, or other collaborator. So read it through once and highlight all the statements that most stand out to you. If you find that you've highlighted 50% of the transcript, go back with a more critical eye and unhighlight some of your selections, until you…

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