Lesson 2. Building the Rough Cut

In the simplest terms, building a rough cut consists of marking clips and placing them into a sequence, as you did in the previous lesson. But the real work of building a rough cut is shaping a story. Rather than focus on a specific action within a single clip, you start to focus on how the clips fit together as a group. This is especially true for unscripted documentary ...

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