To gain a deeper understanding of how documentaries are edited, I studied Charlie Brooker's BBC 4 series 'Screenwipe' which contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.
Firstly, I looked at Reality TV editing as I felt would be relevant to my study to help me produce my own documentary. This particular element instantly related my production piece as I want to represent the falseness of such shows as well as discovering if people in Essex actually conform to the ‘stereotype’ created by the series TOWIE.
Charlie Brooker's programme showed the following:
- In the early 90's, hard-disk editing emerged allowing different shots to be instantly accessible
- This type of editing allows editors to swap shots over time or change them for others
- Reality TV shows use this technique: 24 hours of footage can be condensed down to one hour of highlights creating a particular story
In this particular episode, he showed how easy it was to manipulate footage a create any story line, emphasising the falseness of programmes such as TOWIE. He used three other people and set up a reality TV programme shot from different angles.Using careful editing, he showed how one piece of footage can be used to illustrate different points and to set things up in certain ways. A piece of previous footage could be used later in a reality TV show showing someone's reaction to another's comment for example.
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