disapearing up your own arse

[wage-slave]

how do you guys stop yourselfs from thinking about everything when editing. Thinking about whether this will spoil the pace, whether this scene is a subliminal hint to the plot of the story, Will these two scenes wreck the fluidity if put together, how long should I stay on the establishing shot, does this effectivly contradic that...and so on.
How do I stop disapearing up my own arse and get my film finished?
Any help greatly appreciated.

[Matt J Heaton]

Any help on how to get out would be appreciated.

[Spoon boy]

erm,

[wage-slave]

thats me if I was editing in the shower.
its a fecking nightmare....
Shall I rephrase the question?

How Do You Stop Being An Arty Twat and just get on with it? Surely someone must have a hint or three?

[Nigel]

I am not an editor nor do I claim to be--I pay a guy to edit for me. However my advice is stop thinking about it--get in there and just do it.

Then sit back a few days and drink some beer. After that look at it see what you like and don't like--change it. But, don't try to get it all done at once. On the same note don't neglect it. Finding out how to do this may be hard--it sounds like you are doing it now.

Good Luck

[Littlerich]

Yeah, I know what you mean...


You've got your storyboard / shot list in one hand, your footage on the other (and it's fecking good footage, but it has all the shots you wanted and more...

How do you stick to the storyboard, while knowing full well that the shot in the storyboard is crap on film (Dv/Whatever), where as you have something MUCH better in the can...

What do you do to stop yourself from straying from the boundries of the storyboard and maiking it up as you go along?

Well..... I think that you are gonna have to make it up a bit as you edit.
There is no way that the film you have got planned out on paper is gonna look the best.
That's why when filming, you get different shots, cutaways, stills, external shots, internal shots, nostril cam shots, etc...

When you are in the editing chair, you decide that shot 42: The establishing shot of a bush is crap and replace it with the shot that flies over your actors at 300 miles an hour. (Theoretically)...

You are alloowed to change your mind during editing, as long as you stick to what is going on... Ie. edit the film so the story does what it should, and doesn't go off the trail.
(Like my post!)


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[wage-slave]

Thanks Nigel and Rich.

I guess you are saying the obvious.
Just do it (any old which way)
1 - then relax,
2 - and then go back to it and change it.
Repeat 1 and 2 until it works.

[Dr.Remulak]

I am Dr. Remulak and I Teach as a slave in a high profile film skool for the past 11 years. Editing is an art of time and story telling. You must be able to follow a time line no matter how convoluted. You must be able to disect a time line and re-assemble it seven ways from Sunday. You must be able to see a story from several points of view and enable the viewer to make sense of it allo in the end.
The Dr.