In the most recent films I've done, the director will often call me from the set and tell me, "I'm not sure if we got it but I covered the hell out of it. I think you'll have enough."
Yeah. We're a long way from the days of Hitchcock.
The upside for me is that the movie becomes more a movie that I (the editor) owns. I create its look, feel, rhythm, musicality, performances. So much of it is in the editing room. And that's very satisfying for me. And if I do my job well, it's satisfying to the audience as well. They don't care whether it happened on set or in post. They just want a great time at the movies. Which is the way it should be.
D
David Dodson
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From: Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2009 6:16:05 AM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: please expand - circle takes
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups .com, John Hollands <johnhollands@ ...> wrote:
<< Could you take a minute and explain more about "can't edit a movie with
> only circle takes".>>
I can't answer for David, but i can guess. One of the things I miss most about film was that it forced you to think. The costs of processing meant that you had to visualize what you wanted. You had to get a group of talented professionals to understand your vision. Then you didn't shoot until you were ready. This gave us folks like Hitchcock who could stand in front of the lens when they were shooting a part of the scene he didn't want from that angle. And Clint Eastwood who can nail it in just a few takes.
Now folks are learning in the "shoot the hell out of everything and hopefully we'll have something to make a movie out of" approach. So no, in this new world you can't rely upon "circled takes" as the old school of try to shoot only what you need is gone forever.
The good news for post production folks is that it puts more work in our world. The bad news is that the quality of the final product seems to suffer more often than not.
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