You've conducted dozens of interviews. The footage is powerful, but the sheer volume of material is paralyzing. How do you find the narrative thread in hundreds of pages of transcripts? The answer is to use AI not as a writer, but as a structural analyst and first-draft editor. The Core Principle: AI as Your Narrative Architect The key is to leverage AI for rapid structural drafting, not final storytelling. Think of it as an architect who creates blueprints based on your raw materials (interviews). Your role is to be the master builder who critiques, corrects, and ensures the final structure honors the emotional truth of your footage. The AI excels at pattern recognition—it can identify recurring themes, emotional shifts, and key quotes across a transcript corpus. Your expertise guides those patterns into a coherent, ethical, and visually compelling story arc. From Transcript to First Draft: A Practical Workflow Here’s a high-level process to transform raw interviews into a structured outline.…