Pre-edit: Cut it up! (27.11.08)

Part One
We began the first stages of editing today. We got some advice from one of our lecturers: to cut up the bits of the interview to make your story before you start with the visual side. So first, we started cutting up the interview, bit by bit, removing the parts we definitely don't want to use. Most of what we cut out was film that was taken in between questions, answers that trailed off, and long "umms" and other sounds (you'd be surprised how much time goes to into saying "umm" a lot) It took about two hours to clean it up and have only the best answers and to put it in a rough order to tell a story.

Part Two
The next step was to do the same as above, but with the footage from the first and second day of shooting. This took another two hours and we didn't get all the way through it. We found the hardest part was actually deciding what to keep and what to leave out. We figured that we took quite a bit more footage than we needed, but going through all of it shot by shot gave us a much better idea of how we wanted to use it. This was a bit easier though because we didn't have to worry about audio.

Result
In the end, we got almost 2 hours of footage down to roughly 10 minutes.