Bayne, G., 2014. If You Want to Learn How to Tell a Story, Edit a Documentary. [Online]
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“Editing a documentary is akin to someone handing you a bag of sentences and asking you to write a book.” To be honest, this is one of the most acurate quotes I have seen about documentary editing. In this article, the author as a experienced filmmaker, talks about his experience of cutting documentary. It is commonly considered that a documentary should focus on storytelling, and editing can really decide how effective a storyteller you are as a editor. The author concludes three tips to become a good storyteller, which are spending more time on watching footage, using some softwares rather than transcripts to locate a stence or word and the first 10 mins might be your only time to introduce your tone (or style I suppose). In sum, documentary editing should be to some extent different from drama editing, and this article gives good example of that.
“Editing a documentary is akin to someone handing you a bag of sentences and asking you to write a book.” To be honest, this is one of the most acurate quotes I have seen about documentary editing. In this article, the author as a experienced filmmaker, talks about his experience of cutting documentary. It is commonly considered that a documentary should focus on storytelling, and editing can really decide how effective a storyteller you are as a editor. The author concludes three tips to become a good storyteller, which are spending more time on watching footage, using some softwares rather than transcripts to locate a stence or word and the first 10 mins might be your only time to introduce your tone (or style I suppose). In sum, documentary editing should be to some extent different from drama editing, and this article gives good example of that.