Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro
Elements of a Documentary
A course by Martina de Alba , Visual Artist
About the video: Elements of a Documentary
Overview
“In this lesson, I will cover interviews, cinema verité, voice-over, archival, B-roll, and reenactment to build the narrative.”
In this video lesson Martina de Alba addresses the topic: Elements of a Documentary, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro. Learn to tell real-life stories that inspire an audience by exploring creative shooting and editing techniques, from the initial structure to the finished video.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Elements of a Documentary Now that you have a better idea of what we will do in this course, in this lesson, I'll teach you the different elements of a documentary which are interview, vérité, archival, voice-over, B-roll, and reenactment to build the narrative. Let's start. Interview The interview is a common documentary need. It allows people being filmed to speak directly about events prompted by the questions asked by the filmmaker or the producer. I want to share that healing with anybody else who's willing to receive that. Interviews in a documentary give the viewer a sense of reali...”
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Course summary for: Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro
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Audiovisual Post-production, Photography Post-production, Video, Video Editing

Martina de Alba
A course by Martina de Alba
Martina de Alba is a Spanish visual artist, currently working as a director, producer, and editor in Los Angeles. She studied graphic design in Barcelona before moving to New York City to learn video editing which combined her passions for both graphics and music. She worked as a full-time video editor at VICE Media and, in 2016, joined The Front, a female-based media company in Brooklyn. Martina later moved to Los Angeles, where she transitioned into directing and producing.
She has worked on short documentaries for The New York Times, National Geographic, CBS, Spotify, and Apple, among others, and is currently editing documentary series for Disney+, Paramount+, and MSNBC.
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