On several occations I've been given the opportunity of being my own director (or my own editor, whichever way works), which is always an enlightening experience. My editor is very rarely satisfied with the work of his director - and the director-side of me has learnt the value of preproduction.
For some of the things we do, we get the opportunity of planning almost everything before a shoot, right down to the edit. I'll edit an animatic, sometimes with only pencil drawings, and when a shot is missing or an angle is wrong I'll draw it and edit it in. When we get to shooting, I know what it will take for every shot to work within the edit, and I can focus on those things.
Back on topic: This thread has moved on to a general complaining about working file-based - but let's remember there's also a lot of benefits, I'll add just one:
Dumping in a bunch of files with arbitrary names gives me a back door into the fottage - one thing is it allows me to watch the very last take first, which I've found can sometimes make it a lot easier to look for earier better takes.
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Den 20. des. 2010 kl. 15:05 skrev "Steve Hullfish" <steve4lists@veralith.com>:
> This is actually another example of something from the very first Avid Master Editor's workshop: Paula Heredia was there as a documentary editor. She was talking about cutting a recent doc and described all of these shots she felt she needed for the cut. One of the workshop participants asked, "How did you get these perfect shots?" Her reply, "I sent the director back out for them!"
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> I loved that. Of course, rarely does the editor get to demand that the director go back out and grab stuff that's needed to better tell the story, but it showed the importance and power of the editor to know what was needed to properly tell the story.
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> On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:26 PM, John Hollands wrote:
>> Great Directors want Great Editors to say things to them like "I'd
>> really like a shot of the finger on the trigger here" or "we definitely
>> need a wide shot to see him escape"
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