Well time to edit

M. Night inspired me to get back to my film. He's doing glass' editing. Jesus 8 hours a day editing? That's just wow. dude must have a fridge full of red bull or something....

How does the editing process work. Not easy. I mean it all kinda sucks and is a pain to do. But editing is where the film either works and fits and has good flow or it's all for nothing.

You got to shoot for the edit sometimes too. For me, if I didn't shoot my stuff with editing in mind. I rely on fades or any kind of close up to then zoom out into a different shot. Or simply hard cut, which to me is the worst style of editing, just hard cutting. It's so inorganic and blatantly done because of a lack of foresight into how things would be edited.

Ultimately what matters if you don't have clever editing in mind, is the story. Just stick to the story and tell the story. Fancy editing has to service the story so that's paramount in the end.

And sometimes it's luck. I've had instances where I never intended things in footage to sync or work according to the musical choices but they just did once I watched a rough cut of the footage and music together so I kept it. You'd think watching my stuff that I pre-conceived edits, but not so. I just did it by accident. Only stuff I ever pre-conceive is when the camera movement syncs to the music, I do that purposely, or when wide shots sync to high notes in the music. I use the visuals to sync to the dynamics within the music. Little stuff where the notes are in perfect sync with the visuals, never pre-conceived and could never be, just luck.

It's just that I grew up on MTV and the thing that kinda pissed me off about it back in the day was the older music videos which didn't sync to the music just had the singer singing the song in some random un-coordinated unrelated setting. It made no sense to me. So my goal when I began doing music videos back in the old old old days. Tech TV dial up days brother... Was to sync EVERYTHING to the music. Nothing would go unsynced in my stuff. It just worked better to me.

Not that I started this, but yeah more music vids online were like that that I came across. Nothing was just random footage tossed onto music lazily. Care was taken to attempt a marriage and dance to the music.

Watch old music videos. Strange isn't it. They just put the music on, had a bunch of random crap happening and nothing synced to the actual music. It was so awkward. We don't do that mess anymore. Modern stuff is miles better.

Only time when music shouldn't sync is when it's stylistically allowed, otherwise what a joke to edit a music video out of sync with the music...

So what the fudge am I going to be doing and will I finish this damn project? Right now I'm beating myself up about whether to shoot an after credits bit I want to do because I've grown my beard out for the first time in my life and it'd be now or never to get it.... I say as I've always said, better to over-shoot than have under shot this thing. Might as well capture it, then decide whether to use it or not later. It just defeats the purpose of the actual ending of the film if the true ending is after the credits....

Get busy livin or get busy dying, eh... I think I will shoot it, but won't use it. That'll be how I approach it.

What will I do at this point. Footage will now just basically be tossed into the time line that I want to use for the finale, then we cut the whole final bits and I'm gonna take a vacation maybe a week before I get to the mid section of the film. One solid month of fx work and it should all be ready to release in time for SOLO.

Boy, I mean I'm gonna go see the movie. Lots of grown men and women crying about it online. I don't want to be that pathetic. I'm already waaaaaay past that point. I'll see it, give my honest views on it, move on. It's a movie they wanted to be one way, got tossed around, changed, whatever, typical hollywood. Happens all the time. Why is anyone surprised?