Documentary - Rough Cut

Today we showed Zoe our rough cut. We’d listened to a lot of what Helen suggested when seeing our sync assembly, having the doc less linear to make it more interesting to watch and have some of the more important characters appear more than once in the doc. We also shortened most of the interviews quite a lot, making the rough cut 15 min instead of 25. 

Zoe liked a lot of what she saw but gave us some good feedback on what she wanted us to change. She said we should make it even less linear, wanted to have sync clips in the beginning before the title sequence to tease the audience to what’s going to happen and have some of the survivors or other important characters in the film make the conclusion, not the presenter. She also wanted us to re-record Kamran’s V.O since it didn’t have much energy to it and sounded almost robotic. 

She liked the VOX Pops and how the documentary was shot, but suggested us to have the VOX Pops earlier in the doc, same with the survivors, since they’re some of the most interesting characters in the doc and will help keeping the audience’s attention.