Documentary Assembly

The first task we have been given to do is to construct a 5 minute documentary from footage recorded by other students about a spoken word poet called Adi. We started by being given around 150 clips of Adi at a open mic night in a pub in Sheffield and a few exterior shots of him in Sheffield. In these clips there was 3 interviews with people from the open mic night, and a small interview with Adi outside. Myself and Jay began to label all the footage, noting the shot framing, style and content on the majority of the clips. We then started organising the footage in different bins of cut aways, interviews, stage performances and unusable categories. We did this to make it easy to find the right style of shot we would need when constructing a narrative in the first assembly.

Renaming footage and putting into different bins

Because we didn't have all the footage to begin with, our first assembly started out very slowly as we attempted to construct a narrative from what we had. This ended up being around 10 minutes which focused on the open mic night to begin with and a few performances from people there, then through an interview with one of the guys at the night, introducing Adi and then cutting to the exterior interview in-between cutting in and out of one of his poems.

First part of the original 1st assembly

We completed this first assembly before we had even seen the rest of the footage we would have to work with so I believe that the film we have laid out will still change dramatically in the fine cut, but I think we will still use elements of what we've constructed here as well as some of the techniques we discussed such as cutting between the different versions of Adi's poem.