From the course: Video Foundations: Interviews
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Organizing transcripts and paper edits
From the course: Video Foundations: Interviews
Organizing transcripts and paper edits
As I've said before, the biggest challenge to shooting documentary and reality-based projects is capturing and engaging conversation on video and shooting it in a way that's also visually interesting and complimentary. However the next biggest challenge you'll soon discover is figuring out how to sort through all the material. With an average short video project featuring conversations with anywhere from four to eight people, it's not at all unusual to end up with two to four hours of raw footage just for a typical 3-10 minute video project. And if you're talking about a full-length television or feature-length documentary, you can easily have dozens of hours of material to comb through. It's always good to look at all your raw material once over and take notes the very first time you view it, write down any suggested visuals, notable sound bites that you know you'll want to use, and any ideas that occur to you for how to structure and arrange a story. This is easy to do for a single…
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