Wild Card: DP/Editor

For this project I am the DP/Editor. Let me start out by saying that I am not a DP. I perform that role only as a necessity, and have never given it any more thought than that. It isn't that I've had an aversion to it.. certainly the camera is interesting to me (or else I'm in the completely wrong field) but what has always interested me more are the other aspects of filmmaking.
Editing and DPing go hand in hand. I found when I created the shot list that I was making it from the perspective of the editor. So I had to go back and reorder it for efficiency. In order to do either job you have to be able to visualize the other. It's been a lot of fun putting the two together. I brought the script with me to the gym so I could add notes about what types of shots go where. I had planned to stay for 45 minutes but when I finally looked down I had been there for and hour and a half and didn't even notice. I just got lost in the script and all the different possibilities for shooting. It was a very exciting feeling, and a revelation that I should always bring a script to the gym if I want an awesome workout.

Editing 3B

I've done a lot of editing– sound included. So I was relatively comfortable editing this piece from the technical perspective. The main difference between this project and the ones I've worked on in the past is that all my previous sound edits have accompanied video. Creating a soundscape without a set story was a challenge. In my head I kept trying to force a story through sound, but I really couldn't accomplish anything until I pushed that desire aside. I spent a lot of time rethinking the different sounds and how they could be changed to make something new, or ways in which the context would change them. It's interesting how things change just by they way they are perceived. Perception tells its own stories, and that is a very exciting discovery because of how many avenues of storytelling it opens up for exploration. I'm ready to go!

Sound 3A

Coming off the Master Shot project in which I ruined/made awesome the sound design made me very wary about recording again. While recording I made sure to be extra careful and take my time, making sure I didn't compromise on anything. I planned out pretty extensively what I wanted to record and even practiced playing recorder in front of the Chick-fil-a associates. (That wasn't even the weirdest thing I did that day) My group was fun to work with and it was interesting to see what they brought to the table. I think what I enjoyed the most was trying to "visualize" the sounds before I was in the editing room. It's easy to picture something in your mind, but thinking in sound is a difficult task. I actually filled up my tub with water, put my head under and closed my eyes. That is the environment in which I thought of the sounds I was going to create.