Film Update: Inching Closer
October 23, 2006

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

I was rather intimidated by Final Cut when I sat down to edit my [short] film a few months back. The learning curve of FC is huge, with everything from matting on the fly to mutli-channel mixing available with a few clicks or key codes, the simple cut and trims I wanted to do were obscured by Feature Freedom.

Over the weekend though that started to change. I found myself rather effortlessly dropping pieces into and pulling them out of sequences, ripple and roll editing to get dramatic timing right, and tweaking colors to supplement the tones of the scenes. I've been reordering lines and line readings, recasting the overall order of the piece in light of the reality of the footage I have.

In other words I'm getting better.

With luck I'll meet my goal of a rough cut of the movie by Halloween (Happy Birthday Sean), though just like in writing, the key to perfection with a project is working the material over and over again, trying subtle variations and alternate takes until things click across the board.

Then comes the real hell: friend's critiques.

Last night I spoke with a guy very interested in scoring the short. If his music is as good as I think, I'll be able to cut it, some general footage, and some of the matte work into a trailer. My goal for the final project is January of 2007, with a premiere at whatever film festival I'm able to get into.

And then I can start thinking about the next one.

Posted by Jody at October 23, 2006 11:41 AM

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