In the first stages of producing my short film I created an offline edit, the offline edit is an edit that consists of only my raw footage before any editing, SFX or additional clips are added.
To create my offline edit I first reviewed my storyboard and other pre-production documents such as scripts, reflecting on pre-production documents is crucial in the production of the documentary as it reminded me of the clear timeline that needed producing with the footage I had obtained as well and helped in the organisation of the product.
I began to assemble the clips in chronological order on how I had planned the documentary, this meant rushes towards the beginning in which the voice over would accompany and interviews towards the end of the documentary. I plan to add effects to this portion of the documentary such as increasing speed of scenes such as the cars driving below the bridge, this would emphasis the amount of carbon produced by traffic and the overuse of vehicles on small journeys where public transport could be used.
As you can see in the screenshot i have also created the film with a rather unorganised timeline, this being due to pace I was putting the clips in at, in a later version I will make it more organised and clearer however due to this being a draft version I found it was easy to see where all the clips were and how they fitted at a fast pace.
In just putting all my usable footage into the timeline it allowed me to see what I needed to further film or if I was able to begin refining the clips to being to make a final version for the documentary.
After creating my offline edit I realised that the film didn't reach the minimum time requirements and therefore had to get some b-roll to extend the film, without creating the offline edit first I wouldn't have realised what stage i was at and what i needed in addition.
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