It was another day of planning for the team.
The amount of planning that goes into a docudrama is surprising. Even for someone who took film studies, it's easy to forget that someone has to plan out camera angles and scripts. Drama's do not naturally unfold before a camera. Story elements are not always in logical places. It's only through interviews, time and some serious planning that a film begins to take shape.
I spent almost two hours interviewing Sarah M. today. We chatted quietly in the coffee shop, interns and crew members buzzed around us quietly. Some were transcribing the interview while others were capturing it on video. I became painfully aware of every scrape of a chair or crash of coffee beans, hoping beyond hope that the video would somehow pick up the audio of Sarah's voice while leaving the background noise out. Again, I became more aware of what goes into news video. It's easy to script a five minute segment but it is far harder to splice down a two hour interview into a small segment to be packaged for television. And yet, that's what happens all the time on the network news shows.
It's amazing to me how much editing God does. That sounds like a funny thing to say but it's true. He carefully splices things, composing two separate elements back to back with a beautiful segue between them. Things might seem long, disjointed and drawn out but when the story is finally unfolded, you can see how events were carefully crafted. It's a beautiful thing.
Stay tuned for some pictures from the week. There might even be some video clips coming soon.
Written by Revolutionary Media Team Journalist, Caitlin Muir
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