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Dear Aron,
Below is a photo of Josiah, a kid
who lives at 6th and Folsom street
here in San Francisco. He was part
of a Youth Project run by Julie
Trell and myself...The result is a
rarely seen film called,
BUS 24- THE DIVERSITY BUS.
It was a year-long project that
resulted in
this film. I have edited the
most touching and amazing material
into this short Ten-minute sample
on Youtube.com.
For teachers, this project could be
duplicated with any Bus line in your
City.
Please Click here to see a ten
minute clip from Bus 24- The
Diversity Bus.
Good luck with your projects,
Aron Ranen
Instructor Dvworkshops
(415) 810-5934
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The Funny things you talk about at
parties when you are a filmmaker.
In a recent
conversation with award winning
editor Maureen Gosling, we were
discussing editing sytles. The
different approaches to editing
documentaries. She had
interesting ideas, and
suggestions for
creating dynamic, non-talking
heads films
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Don't Bow Down to your Talking
heads!
At this party, Maureen and I
were
discussing how we pull our clips
into the time-line. How
we begin the actual first steps
of documentary editing.
She told me how she tries to
build the scene or action first,
than goes back and uses
interview material to support
this action.
In other words, she first
builds the Cinema Verite
(Chill-footage) part, then goes
back and slips in the Interview
as audio underneath , or
cuts to on-camera interview to
help explain the scene or add
emotional reflection.
She
begins by looking for scenes to
build,
not by searching out great sound
bites.
She wants the cinema verite/chill
footage to be the King, and the
Interview bites the Servants.
Think about your documentary
film...Is it Interview or
Action/Scene based?
Do you have any action you can
cut in a similar manner?
This
approach to editing needs to be
thought of in the shooting stage
of production.
Instead of trying to line up
subjects for interviews, find an
event, road trip, Humanitarian
act or any real-time sequence
that you can practice with.
Film the action as it
happens..shoot your interviews
when you can...most
importantly Do NOT Cut the
interviews first, cut the
action, then use the interview
material to support the drama on
screen.
In Summary,
instead of wallpapering your
film with endless talking heads
and B-roll. Find a topic where
there is an on-going story, a
journey (Even your mom's journey
to the grocery store or bakery),
an event..something you can film
"as it happens". Use this
to practice Non-Talking Heads
approach to documentary
filmmaking.
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California
We
also provide on-location training.
(415)
810-5934
All workshops held at 475 Francisco Street.
San Francisco, CA. 94133
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