Secondary Editing

After we had preliminarily edited our documentary we found that the full film totalled to 5:49 minutes, very much over the time limit that we had been initially set.
We began to cut out material that was not necessary or irrelevant to the film so that we could keep and develop material that was useful and relevant.
We still need to add the archive footage of clips from TV programmes. We have decided to look at clips that promote violence and other clips that promote morals and good behaviour, balancing out our argument topic.
We are also hoping to add clips with statistics on them so that the previous/next clip can be supported, either in a good way or a bad way. For example, we are using a clip in which a grandmother is describing her views on how much TV young children should watch, our next clip is then the statistics of how much children really watch so that a contrasting reality can be shown to the audience.
We have currently cut down our footage to 4:42 minutes which has substantially helped us in managing our time for the final product, by allowing us to find space for new material and cut down any further material that we can deem irrelevant.
Hopefully we are aiming to make the finished product around 4:30 minutes so that the documentary is not too long but also does not lack the crucial information that we want to provide to the audience.