Editing On The Set (page 2)
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Usually on documentaries, the crew is not building or dismantling sets, but they are moving locations. Ron Fricke shot at 152 locations in 24 countries on six continents for his masterpiece Baraka (Magidson Films, 1992).
To the best of my knowledge, they did not edit "on set" in the late 1980s/early 1990s, when Fricke shot this 70mm work of art. But I always wonder what amazing shots audience members didn't get to see because the footage didn't come out the way Fricke and his producer Mark Magidson wanted. If they had been able to shoot on a camera like the Panasonic HVX200, they could have "dumped" the footage from the solid-state P2 card into their laptops and reviewed their footage the very same day it was shot, thus correcting or reshooting while they were still in the same location and giving audiences the full benefit of their v…
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