This will be a fairly short post because I have a lot of work to do today. Right now I'm on a search for B-roll - any footage that will support or better illustrate the documentary. I mentioned the Prelinger Archives before, but now I've finally had time to dig...
Documentary
How to Make a Documentary on Cubicles
Editing is going a lot quicker than I imagined. I just finished a rough cut that I'm pretty happy with yesterday, and I got some great feedback from the editing teacher. I realized I never finished recounting the epic Spring Break Documentary Road Trip or went into...
Editing Thoughts – Day Two
Yesterday's editing went quite well. I've got a 6:50 Thought Cut, so at least there's something to show. But it's far from over. I'm not too happy with the way that cut went, but going through the footage led me to another core idea that I might try today. Here are...
Thoughts After the First Day of Editing
I left The Film School around 2:30 after some late night editing. I'm extremely happy that I can finally say audios to Avid and work with the far superior Final Cut Pro (FCP). However, I'm still a loyal Adobe Premiere fan, and after some footage capture hickups ((For...
Editing With Paper
https://youtu.be/bbfQ6jXE5k0 I have five hours of footage (300 minutes) spanning seven tapes that I must now whittle down into one amazing seven minute documentary. It's definitely intimidating. I think it's worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack because I...
Off With the Talking Documentary Head
As noted before, some classmates aren't the biggest fans of the documentary aspect of our curriculum. Reasons vary from the lack of full creative control, non-fictional (educational) stories, or just sheer dislike for the documentary genre. I'll admit that prior to...
InqScribe – Best Transcribing Software
I'm finally in the last stretch of transcribing my documentary footage, so I'll keep this post short. I thought I'd talk about the amazing software that I've been using to help me in my task - InqScribe. Basically it's a video player and text editor, but with the sole...
Full Frame Film Festival
Being that our second semester was mainly dominated by documentaries, The Film School supports us in going to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which ran from April 12-15 in Durham, NC. I know this post is slightly overdue, but I was waiting for the Festival...
Documentary Tools 2.0
I'm a big Web 2.0 fan, so I unsurprisingly relied heavily on various tools to aid in research, notetaking, and organization to manage filmming the Cubicle Documentary. Here's a list of some of the tools that greatly helped me out, and others that I tried but didn't...