Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro
Basic Documentary Structure
A course by Martina de Alba , Visual Artist
About the video: Basic Documentary Structure
Overview
“Next, you will learn how to achieve a three-act structure. I will teach you how to divide scenes and create an assembly.”
In this video lesson Martina de Alba addresses the topic: Basic Documentary Structure, 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
“ Basic Documentary Structure Now that you've organized the sequences in the previous lesson, we are ready to start creating the structure for the documentary. The key is to be a storyteller and keep the audience guessing. Let's do it. In the previous lesson, I showed you what's the process of creating a script. I showed you how to create transcripts and from the transcripts, we crafted the script. Usually, the script is created or crafted by the producer and or the director. Sometimes though, there will be no script and you will be asked to create the structure for your piece. That's what ...”
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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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