This reflection is a little different to my other ones. Instead of talking about on what I learned during reflecting, instead, I’ll be reflecting on what I learned during the process of making. So, in this post, I’ll be talking about editing (or more, shooting to edit).

Editing, to me, is like second nature. It’s probably the part I enjoy the most, because it’s kind of like putting a puzzle together. But what I’d never really done in the past, was shooting to edit. When we worked on Cleaned Out, there was a bit of planning in regards to cinematic style, but for the most of it, we just got as much footage as we could from different angles, and left the stylistic choice to the editor. And so, putting it all together was much more time consuming than it could’ve been.

For this little exercise, we really tried to focus on what Paul had said in class; ‘shoot to edit’. And so, before we started recording, we had this plan on what we wanted it to look like in our heads, so that we had something to follow when we pieced it together. We made sure that we were properly logging, so that we would be able to easily match sound to video as well. These made things so much easier in post, because everything was all laid out as it needed to be.

Basically, what I got from all this is that we need to plan as much as we can before we even think about pressing the record button. The shots need to be planned out, the actors need to know what they are doing, and everything needs to be logged.