We met over two days so I could assist Sugini in helping her cut down her piece. She is aiming for 45 minutes to 1 hour but at the moment with everything on her timeline in Premiere she is looking at nearly 3 hours. She hasn't added visuals yet and instead has just be working on the interview footage so she can get the narrative in place. As the interview footage is of her father speaking Tamil she has made a transcript of everything he is saying so that as he speaks I can read along and understand the story he is telling. I then went through with Sugini picking out the best moments and the things we should be told and then eliminating things which don't seem helpful or necessary to this story. I also helped correct some of translation making it proper English. After two full mornings we managed to work through the entire nearly 3 hours of interview and the entire transcript. I have blurred the photos to hide the personal content of the film but here are the transcripts we worked on each day.
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After two days of doing this Sugini went away and began cutting down her edit based on all the feedback and advice I gave after going through it and has informed me that it has now been cut down to 35 minutes which is amazing considering it was nearly 3 hours long. This is a much more appropriate and manageable time for her documentary to be for audiences to engage.
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