editorial
Making a film consists of three fully separate creative acts.
There's writing. Which is fairly self explanatory. And takes its inspiration obviously from past mediums.
There's shooting. Which is akin to recording an album or staging a play and being a photographer.
Then there's editing. Which I believe has no formal equivalent in any other medium and may be the most singular aspect of filmmaking. It's a chance to entirely rewrite.
We're in editorial now and what I wish I could do is show you the various stages of our edits as we move to the end. But we can't really do that, for various reasons. What I will do is try and keep a record of my thoughts about how the edit is proceeding, and introduce you to my wonderful editorial team. Which is mostly Rob Ryang, who everyone knows (or doesn't by name but knows what I'm talking about) as the creator of the incredible Shining trailer, which I consider to have pretty much started the trailer mash up form.
Rob is one of the most creative, brilliant people I've ever met. He also has a keen sense of humor that's relentless and really low key. He'll say something that has me in tears with little or no show off effect. I used to cut my own stuff until at a certain point I realized it was holding me back - there's too much one becomes precious about when shooting that you can't lose when you're just editing... And I have to admit my sense of rhythm and timing for edits is on the slow side.
Back then I got the Shining trailer forwarded to me as it was making its way through some filmmaker types, and as soon as it was over I wanted to know who had done it - there was an email address at the end. So I wrote to it, pleading and hoping we could meet. The very next day I read about Rob Ryang in the NY Times and I thought, well that's over. But he responded and here we are now.
More to come... Today is Saturday. Hoping to get brunch with my sweetheart after she gets up, then probably going to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sonic Youth in the evening.
There's writing. Which is fairly self explanatory. And takes its inspiration obviously from past mediums.
There's shooting. Which is akin to recording an album or staging a play and being a photographer.
Then there's editing. Which I believe has no formal equivalent in any other medium and may be the most singular aspect of filmmaking. It's a chance to entirely rewrite.
We're in editorial now and what I wish I could do is show you the various stages of our edits as we move to the end. But we can't really do that, for various reasons. What I will do is try and keep a record of my thoughts about how the edit is proceeding, and introduce you to my wonderful editorial team. Which is mostly Rob Ryang, who everyone knows (or doesn't by name but knows what I'm talking about) as the creator of the incredible Shining trailer, which I consider to have pretty much started the trailer mash up form.
Rob is one of the most creative, brilliant people I've ever met. He also has a keen sense of humor that's relentless and really low key. He'll say something that has me in tears with little or no show off effect. I used to cut my own stuff until at a certain point I realized it was holding me back - there's too much one becomes precious about when shooting that you can't lose when you're just editing... And I have to admit my sense of rhythm and timing for edits is on the slow side.
Back then I got the Shining trailer forwarded to me as it was making its way through some filmmaker types, and as soon as it was over I wanted to know who had done it - there was an email address at the end. So I wrote to it, pleading and hoping we could meet. The very next day I read about Rob Ryang in the NY Times and I thought, well that's over. But he responded and here we are now.
More to come... Today is Saturday. Hoping to get brunch with my sweetheart after she gets up, then probably going to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sonic Youth in the evening.
4 Comments:
It may have been Alfred Hitchcock who originally came up with nearly that exact observation... the quote, which I paraphrase, is as follows: "A film gets made three times, once by the writer, once by the director and once by the editor."... Sorry, but it's been said and done before.
Dude,
London calling. It's Duncan. I'm in love, and my girlfriend is doing her first feature in Seoul. Get in touch. Lots to tell you about. Just did a set of Carling beer idents and working hard. Seems like you are too! Laterz! DJ
neumuzik -
it's obviously not an original insight by any means. i never saw that hitchcock had said, but i certainly had heard kubrick say it in his interview with bernstein. i just find it to be an absolutely true maxim, like murch's rules of editing.
good to hear from you dun. catching up this week but will have a lazy weekend, hope to give you a call.
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