Editor Geoff Richman got his start in episodic and documentary work, but now, he is currently working on one of the buzziest TV shows today, Severance.We got the chance to talk to him about his work on the Apple TV+ show, from his post workflow to how Severance's visual design affects his edit.Saving Time by Being FreeNo Film School: You have a long doc resume and then made the pivot to narrative. How do you feel like doc editing influences your narrative work?Geoff Richman: I actually think it has a huge part in it, to be honest, because I did so many years on docs. It's defined my whole process. In documentaries, there's no script. You're writing the story as you go along, and everything is possible at any point in the process. So it's like you can shift lanes. You can change the story. You can change the direction of scenes. I feel like that's a very useful tool when moving it to scripted, because there's this bible of the script that you sort of can gravitate a little bit too heavily to. If you come at it from a more documentary frame of mind, then anything could be anything as needed at any point in the process. So there's a lot of experimenting with structure, reshaping scenes, repurposing things in a completely different way, taking footage that was intended for one thing, and using it for something completely different, and just all the tools of the toolbox from...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 26 March, 2025