The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing ─ Techniques for TV & Film

The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing sets out the techniques, the systems and the craft required to edit compelling professional documentary television and film. Working stage by stage through the postproduction process, author Sam Billinge explores project organization, assembling rushes, sequence editing, music and sound design, story structure, and the defining relationship between editor and director.

Written by a working documentary editor with over a decade’s worth of experience cutting films for the BBC and Discovery, The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing offers a unique introduction to the craft of documentary editing, and provides working and aspiring editors with the tools to master their craft in the innovative and fast-paced world of contemporary nonfiction television and film.

Sam Billinge is a documentary editor with more than a decade’s worth of experience editing British documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery.