Welcome back to the rodeo. If you’re actually at a rodeo while you read this, then yee-haw. Giddy up, cow poke. I done rustled up some updates for y’all today. Let me return to my east coast slang now in which I talk a lot about how great our bagels and pizza are (really great). Anyways, I did some stuff recently.
The music video is coming along nicely. I shot enough footage to make a 10 minute video, but the song is about 4:45 so I had to trim it down. Which was very fun, surprisingly enough. Music video editing is a economic form of editing. I have 2x the amount of footage I need so I have a lot of options to draw upon. Of course, that doesn’t count all the takes we have. Because we had a ton of shots to get on a short schedule, we only did one take for most shots. But, every now and then, a second or third take snuck in. That being said, certain scenes stood out to me and others were absolutely necessary. The others shots were simply discarded, by my co-directed made her own cut and we compared her and mine. She made some interesting choices that I never would have thought of and probably vice-versa. The edit has a lot of jump cuts which perfectly fits the flashback structure of the video. Now that I’m working n my second edit, I’ve taken a page out of my partner’s book and started using discarded footage as a quick flashback to elude to some other moment in the characters’ lives.
The coloring of the video is another story. As faithful readers will remember (and I’m sure all of you do), I’m colorblind. This means that I’ve been torturing myself trying to create two distinct looks for the video: one for present day and one for flashbacks. Showing the first rough cut to my peers resulted in them telling me they noticed no difference, so yippee. But I think my partner will be able to do better work than I can and we’ll end with a really great product.
I also have my final film major exam these next two days. I’ve been studying a list of films and film terms for a couple months now and I hope I pass. It would be a real stinker if I failed and lost any chance of getting a degree and then went home down lots of cash with no potential and then fell into the world of crime and became a huge mob figure and then turned into a wealthy but unhappy monster. What a shame.
Thanks for reading,
Austin
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