Importance Of Watching The Rushes

The underlining problem we've had throughout the documentary is lack of visual and verbal narrative. We're discussing social media as a concept and therefore don't have any actual physical stuff to film, we're relying on contributors to add much of the content. This is a problem because the people who would really add narrative to the film don't want to speak to us. Two people in particular, Paul Chambers & Ryan Akroyd, would have provided ample content that would have established a really strong base for our documentary. Both those people were simply hard to contact and/or unwilling to help. It's understandable given the nature of their cases/crimes.

But what we never really considered doing, stupid really, was watching back our rushes of the interviews that we did get and really analyzing them. When myself and the director watched the interviews in the edit room we suddenly started asking questions, making points, re watching certain parts, connecting interviews together and suddenly it dawned on us just how important this process is, its so crucial, especially in our situation where narrative is elusive. I think the information we get out of the interviews will help when we are creating new questions for future contributors, giving us a better chance of stringing the interviews together and increasing the chances of finding some narrative or common theme.