It is funny to see and learn what went wrong and what went well in the shoots and how to do the best of the final editing. A deadline is set and the group is motivated and prepared to hit it. ‘Sneaker Spastic’ shall end on the 2nd of June, not the 11th. Due to eagerness and prioritizing the weekend for this showed that we do more out of the editing in longer days than short sessions. Plus we get to study without being distracted and interrupted by other students as in for example the library.
As our short film is coming to an end, other courses are shouting to be accomplished but we want to neatly finish the coloring, lighting, flip-flops, reverse shots, speed and duration configurations and the cuts of Leon and homeless man first. What humans can do without being conscious of the rolling camera is out of words and we have had some hard laughs a couple of times looking like question marks thinking “why does he do that? Say that?” and own thoughts of “What was I thinking when? Why didn’t we do this instead? Was I being too nice? Too bitchy? What is that thing doing in the frame?” This is placed in our sequence of fun shots and is placed separately into a section of ‘behind the scenes’. Author Scorsese was right!
Playing around FCP teaches a lot about editing but mostly about how to operate on Mac computers quicker than others by all sorts of hidden short cuts, video controls and screen, slug and viewer slugs. Film editing is fun.
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