DOCUMENTARY: Editing The Doc & Rough Cut Feedback

I am in charge of editing the documentary and at the moment it is going really well. The structure at the moment is like a football game would be, we have a whistle sound to start the doc and one for half time, starting the second half and then to finish the documentary. At the moment, we look like we are going to meet the 10 minute requirement which is always promising. I haven't put in James and Jason's interviews yet as I haven't finished transcribing them. The edit so far looks a bit boring but it should look better once their interviews are involved and we add the sounds and sound effects. I have changed it ever so slightly from the original sync assembly as it didn't look right once it was all put together, nevertheless, it's looking good. 

Our rough cut is going to be seen tomorrow by Zoe and I think we are ready for it, we are happy with it so far so it'll be interesting to see what Zoe thinks. We were so happy with the outcome from the interviews, they all did so well and have allowed us to start creating a piece of work we are really happy with.

Screenshot of editing process so far

Rough cut feedback
After Zoe watched our rough cut we went for a chat with her. She said the look of it was really nice and the interviews were shot really well. However, we need to structure the story slightly better. To start with we had Carls interview and journey to the training session and then his after interview so we could structure the rest of the doc the same way a football game is structured. Zoe suggested we use Carl throughout the doc and place his after interview at the end to finish it. She also said we need more on the other characters, Carl's build up was really good but the others just appear and aren't really introduced, or instead of this, use Carl more as our main character throughout. 

As Callum and Jack didn't get any cutaways with the interview with Ed because of the time we are unable to use a lot of Ed's interview, which is annoying as he says a lot which would work in our doc and gave a great interview in general. 

I think the route we will go down to improve our doc for next week will be the idea of using Carl more as we are unable to re-film the other characters as they're based in London and it's a bit too late to go back, and we have a lot of footage with Carl.