An editor, Tim Benthom came into the studios to teach an editing workshop with us. In order to give us some prep for cutting our own documentaries, this was a good opportunity to organise a variety of shots and edit them together with cutaways. We were given a script of everything the interviewee said across the interview with some of it highlighted. The highlighted information was what needed to be kept in. In terms of finding the footage, it was very tricky as I hadn't been there on the shoot day and so was unaware of what to look for in the footage. I think that this made quite good practice for next year when we will be given someone else's footage to cut and edit. In the industry, it is also quite rare, unless when making your own films that you will be carrying out every role. Therefore I think that editing footage that hasn't been seen before is good practice. I then had to cut the sync up so that it flowed simultaneously as if it hadn't been changed. Once this was complete, we had to look at the extra footage and find the best cutaways to hide the harsh cuts that were visible on screen. I found editing the sync quite tricky to get it to sound seamless but once that was complete, finding the cutaways and editing them over the top was quite simple. Out of each area, I would say that I find editing the most challenging as it is very technical and takes a long time to perfect. However, these workshops have allowed me to learn a little bit more about Adobe Premiere and how to cut certain types of films such as documentaries so I can learn from that and improve for when it comes to editing my own work.
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