Making a three-point edit
Covering interview subjects with b-roll is one of the most elementary aspects of editing video. It's simply a fact that staring at a talking head nonstop for an entire documentary is about 400 percent more likely to make your audience fall asleep! If you've read the Creating connected clips recipe in the previous chapter already, you know how we can easily select a piece of b-roll to accomplish this task. But if we really want to be precise with our timing, we will employ an extra technique called a three-point edit. Perhaps an interview subject says one particular sentence about their topic of expertise during a longer spiel, and we want to cover exactly that one sentence, beginning to end, with b-roll. The three-point edit makes this easy.
Getting ready
Our simple timeline consists of one talking head clip.
How to do it...
1. Listen to your talking head interview shot and find a sentence where the speaker verbally illustrates an idea that you may have a perfect piece...
