Editing Process and Initial Feedback

We gathered quite a lot of footage on the day of the shoot, primarily consisting of interviews. We had previously outlines a series of interview questions, but these were mainly as a guideline, allowing Alan to expand on what he needed to and omit what was unnecessary or uninteresting. This meant that our two interviews (Alan and his wife Donna) were around 30 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively. We had also previously shot cutaways out and about in Sheffield of iconic venues, as well and cutaways inside the actual studio itself. Brendan was mainly in charge of editing and set up Avid to work with the multi-camera option, before syncing the sound with the video. I joined at this stage to oversee the edit process from a director/producer standpoint. We cut Alan's interview extensively, condensing the 30 minutes into a tight story arc which we felt held a beginning - middle - end structure. We decided to completely omit Donna's interview as she mainly discussed the couples relationship and how they met, and we found it extremely difficult to fit this into the narrative we were attempting to structure. We also abandoned the cutaways from outside in Sheffield, as without being mentioned by Alan they felt a little out of place. Our initial feedback was that the documentary was too heavily reliant on in the interview and that it was in need of another direction. We discussed this as a group and got back in touch with 2Fly, who were unfortunately unable to help do to a full schedule. As the time frame was so short, we deemed it best to use existing footage and gain permission to use that instead. This, we believed, would break up the interview a little more visually, and contextualise the bands mentioned to a greater degree.

First draft:

https://vimeo.com/156731330