Master Shot Editing

The edit bay seems to be where you discover all the little details you wished you'd paid attention to on set. That being said, there is also great opportunity for creativity..mostly where covering up mistakes is concerned. I've been editing on Final Cut Pro since 2006. So I feel fairly confident in my editing abilities, but there are some definite areas that I have/had not yet explored. I realized that the majority of my former projects have been journalistic, or require no sound other than music. Sound in the narrative context has been a stranger to me. For this project I embraced the sound mixer/editor position along with all it's little joys and frustrations. I have learned, first and foremost, to check, double-check, triple-check your work. I will never again say the words either out loud or in my head, "Eh, it'll be okay." Unless I want to spend my entire day in the editing lab. Secondly I learned that what seems to be a huge mistake is sometimes not at all. If you go back and think about your sound in relation to the piece that you have you might realize that you've stumbled your way into something kind of genius, and in that case it'd be nice to say that you'd thought of it before it was recognized as more than a mistake.