Most movies contain 600 to 700 cuts. Requiem for a Dream contains over 2,000.
IMDb, Requiem for a Dream (2000) Trivia
Film Editor: Jay Rabinowitz, also edited The Fountain (2006) and The Tree of Life (2011)
Hey followers, going on vacation yet again. This time I will be gone for about 3 weeks but I will still do my best to update. Take care!
Gettin’ busy!
Working in Adobe Premiere for my video editing project. Actually a lot less complicated than it looks…just a tad confusing in places.
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The rapid Digital Revolution in film has brought with it many terrific things, but it has also created a few nasty trends as well (one of which is that short films are becoming far too long, but I will address that in another post). Today’s post is regarding one trend that has been driving me absolutely nuts. Lately, I have noticed a pattern of more and more young directors editing their own films.
With things becoming cheaper and more available and viable at home, youngsters are starting to view themselves as a proverbial one-stop-shop. “Look at me, I can direct, DP, and edit this whole thing by myself.”
I could spend hours upon hours explaining my detest for this approach, but I wil try and hone my focus deliberately on editing. As the Systems Admin of an editing lab, nothing troubles me more then seeing these young student filmmakers sitting at a station, slaving away, editing a film they, themselves directed. Filmmaking is a collaborative art form. Yet more and more people are losing sight of that these days. Why that is, I am unsure, but I know it is happening.
When directing a film, you live and breathe the material from the ground up. You breakdown every scene, every word, every moment. But as they say, filming is the battle, but the editing room is the war. And like a good General, why attack without an army? Taking a step back from the material and handing it off to an editor is vital to the success of a film. It does not matter if the film is five minutes or three hours.
The film used a unique combination of Adobe After Effects Plug-ins applied to achieve the film’s unique look. No new technology was created to achieve the stylized look of the film.
IMDb, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Trivia
Film Editor: Sabrina Plisco, also edited The Smurfs (2011)
I’ve experienced every crisis known to man thus far:
Existential crisis: Why am I here? Why am I laying on my floor instead of sitting on my chair?
Artistic crisis: Why am I making this? What does it mean? Does anyone care?
Academic crisis: Why am I taking this class? Did I learn anything? Why am I even in COLLEGE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT A HIPSTER!?!?!
Quarter-life crisis: GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE BESIDES PICK THIS STUPID SONG TO BE IN THIS MOVIE. PEOPLE MY AGE ARE GOING TO THE MOTHERFUCKING OLYMPICS AND ALL I CAN DO IS STARE AT THIS SCENE BECAUSE IT’S NOT WORKING.
Linguistic crisis: I have heard this actor say “Nooo” 1 billion times. This is not even a word anymore. What are words? What are sounds?? Fuck. How do we communicate ever??
Mid-life crisis: No one loves me. I am worth nothing. I am going to put all the takes in backwards. And buy a motorcycle. And cheat on my wife.
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Had to revisit this mess today.
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