Documentary Unit: Sync Assembly

Mary and I have made a lot of progress recently. Once we'd finished transcribing, we took to highlighting the most important parts of everyone's dialogue. This took some time as we needed to be thorough, but once it was done it made it incredibly easy to begin editing. By splitting the workload again, we each edited every individual clip, making sure to keep our highlighted parts and cut out anything unnecessary. Once this was completed, we put our work together on the Final Cut timeline and reviewed it. While our sync assembly is currently far too long (approx. 23 minutes!) it's a great start for our editing process. We can now begin to add cutaways, actuality shots and sequences and fine tune the documentary - and of course shorten it to 10 minutes!

I think that Mary and I managing our workload very well and making a lot of good progress on our documentary every day. I already feel like the documentary is off to a very good start.

A page of our highlighted transcript