Okay so here's the bit of fictional script we've been using to demonstrate a new premise for our edit suites:
"Raphael Bianchina was a child prodigy raised in the deep forests of what would become the Czech Republic. From an early age, Bianchina had innovative ideas about design, often conceptualizing them while meditating outdoors. One day, while he was exploring a familiar section of forest recently destroyed in a landslide, he observed patterns in the debris that became his key insights to fortification designs that would later spread across Eastern Europe."
The premise?
Well, in light of recent post-production tech leaps forward... we as editors need not start with "what footage do I have?" but with "what footage do I want?"
What footage...
Do I want?
By this point in the exercise, the heavy lifting is done. We introduced a figure wandering in the forest that an audience can assume to be the object of our script, Mr. Bianchina. We established location and used visuals created through machine learning to cover concepts like innovation and meditation. We nailed the toughest bit: visually illustrating an insight. In fact, after the word 'insights" we can safely transition away to the photographs we have of the different fortifications that exist to this day. Of course, with machine learning tools we can turn all those photographs into drone captured footage. As we like, we can transition quickly between each. Or we can create a collage. Or we can pin each to a map of eastern europe.
Whatever strikes our judgement the right way.
And that's it.
I'll wrap this up tomorrow but the main part of the exercise remains:
Imagination.
