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Lasse Järvi. Editor: Dear Mama. Lasse Järvi is known for Dear Mama (2022), The Defiant Ones (2017) and TransFatty Lives (2015).
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Lasse Järvi. Editor: Dear Mama. Lasse Järvi is known for Dear Mama (2022), The Defiant Ones (2017) and TransFatty Lives (2015).
- A Reverse Writing Process
- Controlling The Narrative
- Plotting The Story on Index Cards
- You Have to Think and Speak Like A Writer
- Organization and “Writing” The Story in Avid Media Composer
- Breaking Down The “Scenes”
- Where The F— Did You Come Up with That Idea!
- HBO Collaboration in The “Writer’S” Room
- Giving Credit Where Credit’S Due
But how in the world do you go about culling through, organizing, and editing 35TB of 2-camera interviews, b-roll and archival footage? And how does that process essentially make you a writer? Executive producer, co-editor, and co-writer of the series Doug Pray has long been a proponent of editing as writing, particularly in documentaries. I talked...
Doug’s partner in crime in editing this magnum opus was Lasse Järvi. Lasse got connected with Doug when he was a student of Doug’sin 2001 when Doug taught his class on, you guessed it, “Documentary Editing as Writing.” Doug was immediately impressed with Lasse’s talent. After that, Lasse edited a number of doc shorts and features for Doug in the mi...
On a narrative film, the writers (often with input from the director) plot out the story on index cards. In this case, the editors were the ones who carried out that process, and they did it after the film was shot. But before starting that process, they need to know the ultimate direction of the film. Doug explained the beginning of the process. “...
“[When writing a screenplay], writers often have a process of using index cards, moving scenes around, analyzing what’s missing from a character’s development, and then trying to figure out ‘Wait a minute, for this scene to work, we must know this information,’ there’s not one piece of language in those conversations, those story sessions, that doe...
You often hear drama editors say that watching all of the footage is very important, but it’s even more important for the documentary editor to watch everything. When watching the takes from a scene, the drama editor already knows pretty well what lines and beats are coming, and so he/she is watching for slight variations and subtle moments in betw...
Once they’d gone through the footage and organized their index cards, they began picking selects and organizing them into “islands”. These are grouped clips that relate to similar themes. These islands will eventually form the basis for the edit. Doug explains. “From that, I break up everything they’re saying in the interview into what I call ‘isla...
A key talent of any writer is the ability to conceive of new ideasthat breathe life into your film. For traditional writers, much of that comes in the screenwriting phase. For the documentary editor/writer, there is a unique opportunity to take what you’re given in footage, and be just as creative with the manipulation of that footage. Doug comment...
When I hear about this editing as writing process, I can’t help but think about the metaphor of a television show’s writers’ room. You have a show runner with an overall vision for the show, and the writers make it happen. In this analogy, Director Allen Hughes is like the showrunner and Doug and Lasse are the writers—as well as their assistant and...
At the end of the day, this idea of editor as also writer on a documentary is about recognizing art, passion, and creativity. It’s about looking at the work of artists who are in essence doing what another artist does, and acknowledging that. And it isn’t always the editor. Doug explains. “Sometimes a documentary director will take a writing credit...
Allen Hughes and Lasse Järvi (Episode: "Panther Power") Nominated 2024 Grammy Awards: Best Music Film: Allen Hughes, Joshua Garcia, Loren Gomez, James Jenkins, and Stef Smith Nominated Independent Spirit Awards: Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series Lasse Järvi, Quincy "QD3" Jones III, Staci Robinson,
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Allen Hughes and Lasse Järvi previously received Emmy nominations for their work on HBO’s The Defiant Ones. That docuseries covered Beats Electronics co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre.
Lasse Järvi received or was part of 2 major nominations in 2018. 2018 Emmys Creative Arts 2 nominations. Outstanding Writing For A Nonfiction Program. "The Defiant Ones". Nominee. Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program. "The Defiant Ones". Nominee. Major award nominations and wins for Lasse Järvi, as compiled by The Los Angeles ...
