How to tell compelling stories out of video interv
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Paper-editing
    • Documentary Production Overview
    • Key concepts in documentary theory
    • Why paper-editing?
    • Paper-editing overview
  • Story concepts
    • Paper-editing and story concepts
    • Terminology
    • levels of conflict
    • The Gap
    • The Quest
    • Three act structure
    • Exposition
    • ladder of abstraction in paper-editing
    • Annotated bibliography
  • Two Column Script
    • Two Column Script
  • Digital Paper-editing
    • autoEdit 2 digital paper-editing software
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  • 1. Timecoded Transcription
  • 2. Read
  • 3. hilight what stands out
  • 4. Identify Themes and ideas
  • 4. list the themes
  • 5. explore relations
  • 6. Make high level outline
  • 7. Fill in the dialogue
  • 8. Recconect video sequence
  1. Paper-editing

Paper-editing overview

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In a paper-editing workflow, at a high level, you would do the following.

1. Timecoded Transcription

You'd get a timecoded transcription of the video interviews

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2. Read

Read it through a first time

3. hilight what stands out

Read a second time, with a hilighter and mark things that stands out at a gut feeling level.

4. Identify Themes and ideas

Look through a third time to identify themes and ideas that could be group together, from the parts you have identified.

4. list the themes

Make a list of the themes you have identified in each interview.

5. explore relations

Think about how the themes relate to each other

6. Make high level outline

Make an outline of these highl level themes, selecting the most significant.

7. Fill in the dialogue

Fill in the dialogue, find the text in the transcription for each theme in the outline, and add it to the outline. Will come back to this point an thing about story concept that can be used to strengthen the narrative. Such as expositon.

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8. Recconect video sequence

Using the timecodes and file reference in the paper-edit reconnect the video sequence in the video editing software of choice.

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Overview analogue paper-edit