Thursday, May 12, 2011

May 12, 2011 - Full Throttle

*Blogger.com was down the 12th, so I am entering my post from that day today.  I will have another post up later tonight regarding today's work*
Today was Earth Day, so I didn’t get as many hours in as I had hoped, so I edited during study hall as well to make up for lost time.  By the end of the night, I had reached 5 hours and 47 minutes of editing time, which is less than I thought I would have for the day, but more than I had by the time play rehearsal came around.  Today I worked on the organization and how I would go about showing what we did the 2nd day, and the performance.  It is an interesting order I edited the days, but I think it works now.  Then I edited the concert in Beijing.  The song I used was not re-recorded when we returned to the U.S. like all of the other songs I will be using.  Unfortunately, the tempo between the concert I used it from, and the key are slightly off, so I need to use what I have, and deal with it.  There will not be any troubles of this sort with the other concerts because they were recorded in a more controlled environment, rather than a performance.  I have 47 minutes of the film.  I feel like I lost attention when watching it back, so I do have some editing to do to maintain viewer interest.  But I will edit the rest of it first.  I am still very much excited about this project.  With every film I make, it is a slow start because I don’t have enough to work with just yet, or I don’t know where to start.  I often will put random clips in to start, and I end up taking them out by the end, but it pushes me to start the process.  Once I get going, there is not much that can truly take me away from editing.  I am at that point with this movie.  Any spare time I have I plug my hard drive in and I edit.  The nice part about this is that I am instantly 110% focused on editing as soon as the program opens up.  I feel like these next few days will be the most challenging, yet the most productive, until I finish my rough cut.

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