Posted in PP2, Uncategorized on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
snapshot week9.
Difference from last week are.
we have shot all the footages
have a brief schedule for editing
have started on logging all the footage onto a piece of paper so we can do paper edit
At this stage everyone are watching the clips to analise and make it easy to view what we have and what we’re going [...]
Posted in PP2 on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Basically, the editing principles of fiction and documentary are the same. However, there are more possibilities when editing a documentary, as you are not bound by causality in the same way and thus do not need to tell your story in a certain way, which gives you a high degree of freedom; you should therefore [...]
Posted in PP2 on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In his article “The Voice of Documentary,” Bill Nichols writes:
Documentary displays a tension arising from the attempt to make statements about life that are quite general, while necessarily using sounds and images that bear the inescapable trace of their particular historical origin. These sounds and images come to function as signs; they bear meaning, though [...]
Posted in PP2 on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, by talking with David Carlin, He recommended a great to way to edit doco.
which is done by paper edit.
we have to log and write everything down onto a piece of paper. including the trascript of every scene. so we know exactly what was being said and what was being done.
In this way it will [...]
Posted in PP2 on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’re a lot of things that I’ve learnt by making the documentary from the scratch.
I think there’s something that we’ve been missing. being natural wasn’t really shooting whatever that comes out. it’s been quite hard to edit and focus on one direction because it just flowed through how it comes out.
and we had to go [...]
