Today I captured all the footage from our Providence shoot on Monday. I am doing many things different this time around. I am looking at EVERY piece of footage captured as a possibility for use. On my last project I saw the shots I needed and dismissed the rest as shit. Then I saw my buddy Charlie’s edit from the same shoot and he utilized a lot more of the footage. So here I am in the learning process.
It is actually a lot more fun this way. Our style has been to just let the camera roll when we shoot, and we have captured things that we didn’t notice while shooting. I pretty much organized all the footage into little sub-clips and now I am in the mental stage of editing. I piece the story together and write down how the film could play out, then I turn the page in my scrapbook and do it again. Then the next night I write it a couple more times. Overall I get many different versions of what I could do, and hopefully can take the best parts from each and make a fantastic masterpiece.
On a side note. I don’t read enough. I don’t watch enough films. I don’t write enough. I don’t play guitar enough. I don’t work enough. I don’t hang out enough. But I’m pretty happy. And I’m working hard.
On another side note. I am not looking forward to the impending election day, and the results.
byebye.
Tags: editing, short film
