The Thing with Editing...
So, here's the thing with editing. When its good, its real good and when its bad, it just plain flat sucks. People will ask you all the time: so, how's it going? Now, I don't mean the coffee-drinking-everyday-type people that dont give a shit, Im talking about people who know or were involved with the film and actually want to know how "it's" going. And so, here's the thing...
Initially, I would just flat out lie. Its going well or Fantastic or Its coming along or Yeah, solid progress. Actually, it was more like: I fucking dont know what to do with it right now. There are hiccups, it took me almost a damn month to get started! This tape's missing or that's gone or this thing is not back from the lab, plus you're tired from shooting and you wanna kinda go for a swim coz there isn't any real deadline and then the nights are fun because you hate yourself for going swimming... but none of this actually answers that question, so the thing is....
The thing with editing is when the going is good its REAL good and when its not good, its bad. How bad? Well, you frankly dont know who the fuck is ever going to watch this damn film. You can see the mistakes just all over the place, all for the world to see. The acting doesn't work, the directing sucks, no music could possibly fit in there, you don't know if the cameraman had contracted a cataract or he plain flat refused to use his eyes to frame the shot and so on and so on... When its good, its real good. How good? Well, its 4:24am and as I was editing a scene, I got SO EXCITED about the frame in front of me that I started hopping on one foot.. major adrenaline rushed through my body and I picked up the phone to call my DP, to just share how awesome this one frame looks... or yesterday, when I was looking around for people to hug and tell about my great great great breakthrough with reordering this climax.
So, that's the thing with editing. I'll try to be more honest from now.
You: So, how's it going?
Suds: Well, you know, its like anything else. Good and bad moments, but I'm hoping to pull through.
Initially, I would just flat out lie. Its going well or Fantastic or Its coming along or Yeah, solid progress. Actually, it was more like: I fucking dont know what to do with it right now. There are hiccups, it took me almost a damn month to get started! This tape's missing or that's gone or this thing is not back from the lab, plus you're tired from shooting and you wanna kinda go for a swim coz there isn't any real deadline and then the nights are fun because you hate yourself for going swimming... but none of this actually answers that question, so the thing is....
The thing with editing is when the going is good its REAL good and when its not good, its bad. How bad? Well, you frankly dont know who the fuck is ever going to watch this damn film. You can see the mistakes just all over the place, all for the world to see. The acting doesn't work, the directing sucks, no music could possibly fit in there, you don't know if the cameraman had contracted a cataract or he plain flat refused to use his eyes to frame the shot and so on and so on... When its good, its real good. How good? Well, its 4:24am and as I was editing a scene, I got SO EXCITED about the frame in front of me that I started hopping on one foot.. major adrenaline rushed through my body and I picked up the phone to call my DP, to just share how awesome this one frame looks... or yesterday, when I was looking around for people to hug and tell about my great great great breakthrough with reordering this climax.
So, that's the thing with editing. I'll try to be more honest from now.
You: So, how's it going?
Suds: Well, you know, its like anything else. Good and bad moments, but I'm hoping to pull through.
posted by Sudhanshu at 11:27 PM
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