In 2023, I enrolled in the online editing school Unsplice. One of the assignments was to edit a documentary.

The edit school provided hours of footage of a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada and it was my job to implement the teachings of the Creative Storytelling module of the course. It is possible to produce a totally different documentary from the footage as the content ranges very widely. I chose to tell the story of the family history of the farm and how that brings us to how it is now and what the future will bring.

There was 5 hours worth of footage at the start. I had to look through it all, including the transcription, to see where the hidden gems were that add to the story. From these selections, I made multiple sequences which narrow the content down until what it is now.

From these selections, I made five new versions, integrating the feedback from the teacher, really focussing on what complements the story and what can be left out.