I been going as crazy as my hair!

Currently the project is in the "preparation for post production phase". And for me that's meant transcribing interviews, getting people to help transcribe interviews (Thanks Zoe, Julia and Gen!) printing out all 200+ pages of them, putting them in a binder, tabbing them, then going through everything with a Hi-Liter.

I've recently finished the Hi-Liter deal, and now I am working on the "Paper-edit" which is pretty much trying to take everything I selected from the transcripts, and trim and arrange until they make sense! That may sound easy, but my process is constantly interupted by *gasp* thinking! I always seem to just stare off at times, trying to piece everything together in my head. How I'm going to present the story, arrange everything, how to order it so it makes sense. What's going to be the perfect order!

I did recently though, read a pretty good article in the "Total Chaos" Hip Hop Aesthetics reader, written by DJ Spooky, kept talking about arranging and remixing film as a DJ. Pretty interesting... and it got me to thinking about how I like to edit stories and present them... I like to tell stories like I DJ. Often I like to blend. Other times I just scratch it in, and drop the record in a the right time. But there's always a rhythm, a feel for it. On top of it, song selection is important, you have to juxtapose and blend the right songs with each other! Sometimes I order songs with each other because of a certain similar element in them, whether it's a certain instrument, the way the drums work together... and other times I put them together for their contrast, and the meaning that can be drawn by the two together. My film will hopefully flow and blend, stop, go, smoothly at the right places and abrupt at certain points, but always with the "feel" in mind. Just like how I like to tell stories in some of my mixes. Check them out for yourself!


Where it all comes together...

Labels: metaphors, post production, updates