14Working with Time
As you continue to work on your cut, you have the opportunity to define your film’s relationship to time. You and the director are building a world of your own making in your documentary, and you can stretch time in any direction you choose. Rhythm, pacing, and dynamics: these are crucial to your film’s success.
Marking Time
Before we go any further, we must bring up one crucial paradox that permeates documentaries: they are, by definition, about things that have already happened, but the audience will experience them at a place and time that is always in the present. In order to stick to our intention of bringing our viewers ...
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