Impulse

Editing this thing really shows me how impor­tant it is to think of the edit while shoot­ing a film. Take this lit­tle clip for exam­ple. One of the rid­ers in the race had just crashed. Nearly all of the after­math takes place in the back room of the motor home as the rac­ers try to fig­ure out what’s going to hap­pen. There are some lovely lit­tle moments, but they’re sur­rounded by long stretches of absolutely noth­ing inter­est­ing. To keep the film mov­ing, I need to cut away to other peo­ple or loca­tions. Had I thought about this more while shoot­ing, I’d have gone to the other rooms of the RV to get more cov­er­age.
Of course, this also shows how tough it can be as a one-man film crew. Had I gone to the front of the motor home to film, I prob­a­bly would’ve missed some of these lit­tle inter­est­ing bits. But maybe there was also some inter­est­ing bits in the front of the van. Who knows? You can’t let your­self get caught up in that mind game. It’s like still pho­tog­ra­phers griev­ing over the shot that got away while chang­ing lenses.

Related posts:

1. Camerawork and edit­ing RAAM
2. RAAM: movie edit­ing continues
3. RAAM: Locked and Loaded!!!
4. RAAM: still cranking
5. First day of shooting!