Preparing for post
1. Protect your original footage
2. Logging
3. Narration, graphics, animation
4. Doing a Paper Edit
5. Edit Prep
6. Music
Editing the Documentary
7. Transcript editing
8. Using an editor
9. Editing the script
10. Openings
11. Middles
12. Ends
13. Pre-title sequences
14. Pace & rhythm that enhance emotional content & audience involvement
15. Arrange structure to support & propel narrative
16. Create meaning through the juxtaposition of shots
17. Mixing a landscape of sound that heightens the overall story expression
18. Utilising sound elements to describe the images
19. Utilising sounds that orient the viewer to time and place
20. Knowing when to cut or boost sound to describe emotion
21. Employing music appropriate to the mood, theme and character
22. Mixing sounds to create an effective balance between dialogue, music, & effects
23. Seven sins of editing
24. First cut to the final cut
25. Working with feedback from the Ex Producer and Commissioning Editor