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 consider alternative ways of piecing the material together. Try to maintain a certain sensitivity towards the raw material in order to avoid forcing it in the wrong direction because you are too focused on the story you had planned to tell.
-Guidelines for producing a short documentary-
by Kirsten Sørensen, Mette Bahnsen, Henrik Holch, Gitte Hvid and Lise Otte
It makes me feel good about being free with the editing. there are no limitations or rules or certain shots to appear at the scheduled time.
Since we had a direction to follow and have shot in that way, it will be a matter of deciding the bad bits and take out that so the remain will be our documentary. even though there were set up of picture/sound it will be shown in the most natural ways.
Documentary editing in this sense seems very unlimited. but still I think we shouldn’t force it to form in certain ways.
