Editing and a bit of help with sound
This week was very interesting. We already had a pretty well formed idea before the Friday lecture but after that I think it got even better. We already wanted to make the sound be the focus and now we could do it in a way to transform and further layer the story.
On the location we had a lot of fun walking around the forest, I was mainly following Juliette and taking pictures here and there.
Before coming to the editing room on Tuesday I wrote down what clip was which scene or sound, and went on to look for fitting sounds in from my libraries.
This time my editing process was a bit different than usual, I didn’t go into the sound until we locked the picture, and that took us a while. I’m starting to get a bit tired of arguing in the editing suite, I understand that everyone has a different vision and sense of how things should be put together, and I definitely appreciate the input, but I don’t think dwelling on things when the director says he likes the cut is a healthy teamwork practice.
We had some problems with juggling the project files from Avid to Resolve for grading and from Resolve back to Avid for exporting but I think it’s better to encounter all the problems, and make all the mistakes now when we have Siencs to help us than later in life when we’ll be far away from the university and the only thing to aid us will be that one forum post from 2009 that ends with “It works now!” with no explaining of how.
Overall I’m definitely taking that sound module next year.
Looking back:
These practice heavy modules are a real treat, I’m starting to think it’s less making good films and more making a lot of mistakes and developing an efficient and good production process. Theory tells you more of what techniques exist to make good art, but less on why they exits; well, when you actually get to do it yourself you see crystal clear the “why” of theory. Even the things that seemed very formal and unnecessary now make sense – like post-production crew being left alone for most of the time, like job contracts, like proper schedules. Who would have thought? Definitely not me from half a year ago.
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