Planning for different types of videos

Different types of videos will have different planning processes. The following subsections look at different types of video styles, laying out some ideas for the specific planning required.

Documentary videos

If you were involved in shooting the documentary, you would have gone through the process of defining a target audience, so you would be more aware of how the clips will be organized.

Try to arrange the media chronologically, usually according to the storyboard, which will give you a pattern to follow. You will be able to set up the footage as described in Chapter 2. In most cases, all the planning has been taken out of your hands, so after organizing the footage into categories, you will need to follow the procedures described in Chapter 4.

Interviews

When it comes to planning, and you are editing another shooter’s footage, interview videos follow similar lines to the documentary type. However, in many cases, you will...