Documentary Edit: Middle Section

In adding content for the main body of the film, we used Addie's interviews as voice-over supporting what is shown on screen. This was also important to keep the focus on his opinions and experiences as the film is about his story. We included the sound-byte of Addie talking about having a family at the poetry events, and used shots panning across the crowd as they chat to each other to support this. We used the shot of him hugging one of the poets to emphasize this further and also to link to the next shot in which the poet speaks on stage.

Audience chatting

We picked out a part of his poem that was self-contained and of a good length to give a sense of his style, and then added a small section of his interview afterwards of him talking about the sense of community within the art-form. From here, this linked well to Addie talking about his relationship and closeness with the other poets so we cut back to his bedroom interview. We then introduced the next poet we wanted to show who spoke about how he found poetry through depression, which felt suitable as Addie had talked about how they'res a sense of trust and openness between the poets.

Poet speaking

In his interview he talks about how poetry makes him feel better so we used a clip where the audience laughs at his poem to support this. Initially, we were struggling to find a suitable transition from here to the sequence about Addie's inspiration but we felt that having the poet finish speaking and walk off stage was a suitable end to the section.

Addie in the park

For the next sequence we mixed footage of Addie's interview in the park, his interview at home and the footage of him travelling around and writing. For audio we tried to find sound-bytes where Addie talks about his inspirations and how he tries to write, for which the audio transcript was a huge help. We ended this section with him talking about people's perceptions of poetry and how this is usually wrong when they get down to a poetry night. This was a helpful link to transition to the sequence at the Riverside event, which we introduced again via an exterior shot with audio of people chatting. As Addie talks about how 'its a lot bigger' than people expect, we wanted to include shots which gave the impression of a large crowd too.

Riverside Exterior

To transition quickly we overlapped the footage with the audio of the two poet's speaking, and we chose these in particular as we felt that they again challenged the initial perceptions of poetry Addie talks about earlier. Their dynamic is also the most interesting of the acts at the Riverside as we wanted to try and show the diversity of the acts at the events. In the last section we will transition and conclude the film by using Addie's thoughts on the future of poetry for him and in general as well as the footage of him behind the train station.

Transition to the Riverside