3rd draft
I am entering what I like to think of as the third draft of editing this project. My strategy has been something like this
1. 1st Draft - I slapped everything together as we shot it so I could give a cut to John S. for scoring purposes.
2. 2nd Draft - I fine tuned all the scenes and concentrated primarily on making them work as individual units.
3. 3rd Draft - Now I am looking at the movie as a whole piece again and cutting it to make sure the flow is right.
Late Saturday night/early Saturday morning I was feeling a little bit nervous that I had cut the individual scenes too tight. I was afraid I didn't have enough to make the desired 90 minute running time. So I pieced all the scenes together just to see how short I was. Unbelievably, the running time was almost 3 hours. I couldn't believe it. I got a serious sinking feeling. So now I am working at cutting the second draft in half. I am working pretty much around the clock so I have something to decent to show later this week when I go back to okc. But it's very overwhelming.
1. 1st Draft - I slapped everything together as we shot it so I could give a cut to John S. for scoring purposes.
2. 2nd Draft - I fine tuned all the scenes and concentrated primarily on making them work as individual units.
3. 3rd Draft - Now I am looking at the movie as a whole piece again and cutting it to make sure the flow is right.
Late Saturday night/early Saturday morning I was feeling a little bit nervous that I had cut the individual scenes too tight. I was afraid I didn't have enough to make the desired 90 minute running time. So I pieced all the scenes together just to see how short I was. Unbelievably, the running time was almost 3 hours. I couldn't believe it. I got a serious sinking feeling. So now I am working at cutting the second draft in half. I am working pretty much around the clock so I have something to decent to show later this week when I go back to okc. But it's very overwhelming.
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