Edit Structure

Noted from our discussion

When me and Noah met to discuss the edit structure for the rough cut we initially broke what interviews we had down into 5 sections that we wanted to cover. 1)The community 2)Info about street art 3)The interviewees companies 4)Why it should be celebrated 5)Where's it going in the future. We felt that a minute on each of these points would both get a good story across and at the same time cover everything that we thought was important to cover, giving a full picture.

We then compiled a list of which interviewee best covers this subject in their interview. This lead us to realise Tristan is the most comprehensive of all of the people we talked to and indeed the most charismatic, something I know I need to focus on after watching the docs I watched as research into how to edit this film. As a result focussing on him as almost a main character would be a good idea in the film, as he gets across his point entertainingly and informatively.

After a bit of thought we scrapped the idea of putting companies in it, since we thought people promoting themselves doesn't actually get across a lot more than just seeming a bit like an advert for their company. The only problem is that that was the opening question and how they introduced themselves, therefore we won't have them introducing themselves, but we thought this is a problem we can deal with. We asked about their company first so that it's something they'd expect and know so would be able to start talking freely and become more relaxed.

To make up for only having 4 minutes of interviews we're going to have the opening minute a montage of graffiti and Liverpool with Oli's soundtrack to act as a sort of intro section to the film. This is something that both the graffiti films I've already looked at did, so it's a good idea to go with, since it's been tried and tested as successful in them.

It's also key that it ends on a positive note, since we're making a celebration of street art instead of a debate. As the credits roll we want people to have a very positive view of street art, this is vital to the film working, and if they don't have that I'll feel like we failed with what we were trying to portray.