Breaking the ice

I feel what I always feel before doing a tough edit to things, that sense of dread about not having the right footage not having enough time...

I've begun the toughest part of this editing process, getting started. I've crossed that bridge now and I feel better and more at peace yunno. I was like, fuck, what am I going to do. I have no clear plan for this part of the thing, just going to be a mess. As I've been watching what I shot, it's actually somewhat coherent. So there's hope of there being a meaningful realistic good flow to it when I get it cut together properly. It's in that stage where I usually just toss the footage in randomly to just see how it might flow if it was going to possibly be used. It's starting to shape up and develop a little narrative and I hope I can goddamn make sense of what I made.

But the hurdle is jumped. Despite having jumped it many times in the past as I hesitate and procrastinate for hours maybe days before doing this stuff, this time I said, you got to take the pain and just bulldose through it.

I did. It did suck, it was a pain, but having sat here and watched and watched my footage, I feel a bit more confident in putting it together than I was hours ago.

It most likely will be done tomorrow the full forest fight. If I can make some sense of this beginning battle, the actual full final battle will be a breeze since everything about that is story boarded. So it's just a matter of find the footage, plug it in. Like I said editing without a guide is tough and stupidly I did not story board the what I call space jam scene, I plan to have space jam running as the sound track as they fight so it's called space jam. We'll f'n see if it works in the end won't we...