Final idea for editing

After meeting with the producer/director for the documentary and discussing my initial ideas there have been some changes to the final idea of how to edit the documentary. I wasn't sure about the opening of the film as I felt it didn't get the audiences attention straight away and I needed a second opinion to confirm this. I also wasn't sure whether to have the two interviewee's separately shown one after each other or to mix them up, but we have made the decision to use one main interviewee as the focus of the documentary but use the other to back up or contrast on what the main interviewee says.
The producer/director also wanted to add a cardboard feature for the film with statistics written on them about homeless people, I think this is a great idea as it will add more depth to the documentary and I will also use them as a base of what the two interviewee's are going to talk about. 

Inspiration for editing

Another inspiration I have come across is another James Marsh documentary "Project Nim" (2011)

after watching the film I felt that it was a very moving and wonderful piece of work, the editing again like "Man on Wire" (2008) was very simple and easy to watch, but yet affective at capturing mine and the audiences attention. The editing was in control of your emotions as it affectively made you happy, sad and made you laugh at the appropriate times of the documentary. It used still pictures very well in the documentary also. This is what I aim for when editing my documentary, I aim to make it simple and easy on the eye whilst trying to get the audience to engage with the documentary emotionally. 

The original idea - Editing

My initial idea is to open the film with shots of various alleyways, empty streets and busy streets etc and keeping the original atmosphere sounds with them. This is to show to the audience what the living conditions are like for homeless people, I then want to introduce both the interviewee's and have one telling their stories and experiences and then show the other telling theirs. I want to end it on a sad but yet important message or story as it will make the audience realise how lucky they are and how hard it is for the homeless.

Ideas and inspirations for editing

Ideas and inspirations for editing

I haven't had a lot of inspirations from watching several documentaries as I already have a rough idea of how I want it to look, but after watching  "Man on Wire (2008) - James Marsh"

the editing really stuck to me. It was smooth and easy on the eye and didn't complicate anything, which made it very simple for me to understand the documentary's story. This is what I intend to do for my edit of the documentary.