DOCUMENTARY UNIT: SYNC ASSEMBLIY WORKSHOP & ASSEMBILY

In today's workshop, we were shown how to Transcript and then do a Sync Assembly of all the interviews and voice overs that we have.

Helen explained that a transcript is a written document of the entire interview, which you  then go through and high light what parts you want to use together and work it in with the script. Essentially, it's a paper edit which you work from and it makes putting together the documentary much easier and less time consuming.  Helen showed us how to do this and also gave us some clips to edit together with a script and transcript.

Once we'd done this we wrote up our transcripts and then put together our sync assembly. Our aim issue that Helen found was that it was too Linear, we had literally gone by our filming dates and as well our voice over was very boring and locked us down to that structure. She recommended that we change it around more and have different interviews in different places.
This was still an issue with the rough cut. We managed to re-record the voice over with Kamran, getting it more lively and flowing better. However, Helen told us this wasn't the way as you are meant to record the voice over last, once the edit is complete which we weren't aware of at all.

We had moved some parts around such as interviews but Helen explained that it was still very linear and that by 5 minutes in, we were then getting to Berlin and that is where you want to get to first because it's the interesting and exciting bit of the documentary. She explained that interviews can come and go throughout a documentary and we can always bring them back We should do this with either our Holocaust survivors or our Social Media expert.