From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
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Documentary
Norman: Documentaries are getting more and more popular. There are many flavors of them, whether, they're those on educational channels, on nature or cooking networks, corporate videos, reality TV shows, game shows, they all tell stories. That means that we can look at them in the same way that we've been examining everything else in this course. It's easier to edit them when you know what your story is. Once difference in many documentaries from narrative scripted stories is that docs tend to go through larger changes in their stories as they shoot and as they're being edited. In fact, many documentaries shoot for a little while then go cut. Then they come back and shoot some more based on the already shot footage. That's why some docs can take years to shoot and finish. We're going to take a look at a piece from a short documentary called Farm to Table, which is about a small farmer near Santa Barbara, California who's been growing a variety of healthy produce sold at local farmers…
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