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Dhaaram: Documentary on Dyeing and Weaving

ROLE: VIDEO EDITOR

During my final year at NID, our team embarked on a documentary project—one I could only contribute to in post-production due to an ACL injury. With hours of raw footage shot by classmates, my task was to carve a cohesive 15-minute narrative while preserving the authenticity of real moments. The trick? Using invisible editing—match cuts, J/L cuts, and dynamic pacing—to compress time without losing emotional truth.

The Edit.

My approach balanced surgical precision with psychological pacing—first restructuring hours of footage by narrative beats rather than chronology, using match cuts and strategic cutaways to compress time invisibly. To preserve the documentary’s rhythm, I relied on J/L cuts for natural dialogue flow and action-matched transitions to stitch disjointed moments into seamless sequences.

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