I want to emotionally experience the footage and not get slowed down by the technical. I tend to organize the project of every doc the same way, so that I’m not navigating a new organizational system as I’m learning the new material. How do you begin a project/set up your workspace? If you made a change, you were more likely to commit to it because there was no undo button.
It was a different way of thinking - you’d structure your ideas out on paper, lay down a good base with A-roll, and then insert your B-roll on top. You could insert only video or only audio by doing an insert edit but reworking your work was pretty limited. It was linear editing, so you’d set in and out points on your source and lay it down on the final tape shot by shot. My high school had a video tech lab with an old tape to tape editing system that you’d typically find in local news stations at the time. How and where did you first learn to edit? Read on to see how editor Heidi Zimmerman helped bring Black Barbie: A Documentary to the big screen. With the help of Productions in Premiere Pro, and Frame.io, Zimmerman was able to organize all the shots and stay on track.īlack Barbie: A Documentary will premiere at SXSW Saturday, March 11th. To build this film, editor Heidi Zimmerman and her team had a wide range of footage to organize including multicam interviews, verite with Beulah Mae, staged Barbie dolls scenes, product shots, and archival footage. Mitchell and other Black women in the film talk about their own, complex, varied experience of not seeing themselves represented, and how Black Barbie’s transformative arrival affected them personally. It all started with a seemingly simple question from the filmmaker’s 84-year old aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, who asked, “Why not make a Barbie that looks like me?”īlack Barbie: A Documentary gives a voice to the insights and experiences of Mitchell who spent 45-years working at the toy company, Mattel, and discusses how the absence of Black images in the “social mirror” left Black girls with little other than white subjects for self-reflection and self-projection. Now, 43 years later, director, writer, and producer Lagueria Davis, is telling the story of the first Black Barbie in a documentary to explore the intergenerational impact this doll has had on Black women.
The first Black fashion doll to take on the Barbie name was released in 1980. Image source: Black Barbie: A Documentary. Bringing Black Barbie: A Documentary to life with editor Heidi Zimmerman and Premiere Pro
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