Documentary Question????

1. Weddingmaster
   Member

   

   Question about editing, What is laid down first? The video or the Audio? How are they assembled?

   Thanks, Harry

   Give the Bride What She Wants!

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Rob Grauert
   Post Production Host

   

   I lay down my interviews first and arrange them in a way that tells a solid story. After that I add b-roll, then graphics/effects.

   Rob Grauert, Jr
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   Posted 2 years ago #

3. jimcvideo
   Member

   

   I'm working on my first "feature length" doc right now, but from my previous short documentaries, I've always written a preliminary script of where I wanted it to go. Then I got interviews. Then I re-wrote the script to fit what the interviewees actually said. Then I shoot the rest of the video, wrap it all up, and make it happen.

   I would always get the interviews first. On my current documentary project, I'm doing the story behind the guy who invented magnetic poetry (you know, those little words people have on their fridge you rearrange to spell potentially embarrassing phrases). When I interviewed the creator, he told me a story that I hadn't even expected to hear, but it played perfectly into the doc. So I rewrote to include that, and got extra footage. If I had wrapped all my B roll material first, I'd either need to schedule a new shoot, or I would have needed to to drop the really neat story.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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