What a documentary director does in the cutting room

Alannah Coupp on July 1, 2011 in College Online

The new Made in Britain series on BBC2 opens with a film by director Martin Small about manufacturing.

Here, Small gives an insight into the producer/director’s job – talking about the editing process and how, as a director, he needs to make decisions about the style of a film. He also has some tips for anyone wanting to break into documentary-making.

In his cutting room, he describes the three-way process between director, editor and presenter to create the final film, as he works with his editor Bill Coates.  

This is the second part of Martin Small’s interview about his job. In the first, during the filming of the same programme, he talks about directing a crew on location.

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