From the course: The Creative Spark: Brian Kaufman, Visual Journalist

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Editing the Packard Plant documentary

Editing the Packard Plant documentary

So, when we started the Packard Plant Project. When I started shooting it years ago I started shooting it because the newspaper wanted to do a story on it for print and online. And that story got pushed back, and the date got pushed back for publishing. And so, essentially, what we did is take the most interesting part of it. For me, which was an interview with a poet that wrote about the place. And laid a lot of, some of the best footage over that interview. And then to give it context, the second half of the video that we have online now with interview sound bytes and thoughts from people who live and work around the plant. People who've had dealings with the plant they give us some context as to what you're looking at. So, essentially, in the smaller video that's online right now. We started with, (COUGH) the first half of this video is our poet, basically, reading the poem he wrote about this place, and that audio is laid down here. And all of this right here is the video that…

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