The secret behind a successful documentary lies with the unsung heroes of cinema: editors
“Telling Justice Ginsburg’s story in the order it happened would have been boring,” West says. “So, we had to find a way to weave the story together using archival and verité footage.”
But, the best editors are “malleable,” says Benjamin Gray, who spent 14 months working alongside director Susan Lacy to construct HBO’s ““Jane is somebody who has been photographed and in the press since the day she came home from the hospital after she was born. So we had a whole lifetime of archival footage to look through,” he says. “It was a real challenge.”
Tone is something that “Three Identical Strangers” director Tim Wardle says he spent many hours discussing with editor Michael Harte, who received an Emmy nod for his work.
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