Today’s consultation session with Rohan was extremely helpful. We’re slightly behind the rest of the class in terms of our timeline, because we had to wait until Marz, our Uber driver, was available to shoot her interview and then Anna had issues working on the rough cut. So instead of giving us pointers about how to put the finishing touches on our film, Rohan led us through a paper edit of the material we’ve shot, which is really step 1 of the editing process. This is what we ended up with:

And this is what it became after Alice cleaned it up (thx Alice!):

Laying it out like this, there are some clear thematic convergences between the two interviews, and I think intercutting between them will make for a dynamic and (hopefully) interesting film considering our interviewees have pretty strong and likeable personalities. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have any real narrative conflict or a clear beginning, middle and end, but we’ve fashioned something of a three-act structure by separating the topics we got Elizabeth and Marz to speak about.

We’re using this paper edit as a way to get our structure into shape first, before we mess around with anything like integrating B-roll, colour grading and other post-production processes.