Conferences and seminars

I’ve included a section on conferences and seminars here, as they are very similar to interviews but with the added advantage that there is less to cut out. The content is usually retained as a snapshot in time of the whole event. You will likely have much more B roll to work with, such as audience reaction shots, which can be used in different places. Conference edits will, of course, take much longer than interviews, and you will have different types of briefs from your client as to what they would like the edits to achieve.

You can expect two types of briefs:

• Edit the whole conference as one long event
• Extract important segments and turn them into short, independent videos

Let’s take a look at each of these briefs in the following sections.

One long event

One of the big advantages of this kind of brief is that your edits are only cuts between speakers with some breaks. If it’s a single-camera shoot, you can...