Book description
Documentary Editing offers clear and detailed strategies for tackling every stage of the documentary editing process, from organizing raw footage and building select reels to fine cutting and final export. Written by a Sundance award- winning documentary editor with a dozen features to his credit and containing examples from over 100 films, this book presents a step-by-step guide for how to turn seemingly shapeless footage into focused scenes, and how to craft a structure for a documentary of any length. The book contains insights and examples from seven of America’s top documentary editors, including Geoffrey Richman (The Cove, Sicko), Kate Amend (The Keepers, Into the Arms of Strangers), and Mary Lampson (Harlan County U.S.A.), and a companion website contains easy-to-follow video tutorials.
Written for both practitioners and enthusiasts, Documentary Editing offers unique and invaluable insights into the documentary editing process.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Construction of Meaning in Documentaries
- Part I Setting the Stage for a Successful Edit
- Part II Finding Patterns
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Part IIIa Constructing and Refining Scenes
- 7 Evidentiary Editing: Building Interview-Based Scenes
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8 Verité Editing: Building Observational Scenes
- Build Up or Trim Down: Two Options for Finding “The Good Bits”
- Invisible or Self-Referential?
- Microbeats: Sculpting Human Behavior Onscreen
- Body Language
- Verité Cutaways
- Workarounds for Insufficient Cutaway Material
- Making Amalgam Scenes
- Integrating Audio from Unrelated Scenes
- Mixing Evidentiary and Verité Editing with the “Pop-in” Moment
- 9 Building Montages
- Part IIIb Building the Rough Cut
- Part IV The Refining Process
- Part V Seeing It All Come Together: Analyses of Four Films
- Appendix A: List of Films Cited
- Appendix B: Case Studies of Schedules for Feature Documentaries
- Appendix C: Documents You Will Need
- Index
Product information
- Title: Documentary Editing
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317198369
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