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August 14, 2007
The Creation of St Christopher
I have 14 hours of DV tape, there are interviews with 31 people, both staff and students. We filmed in lessons, before lessons and between lessons. We filmed the string group, we filmed the wind group and we recorded the music teacher playing the cello.
Lots of words, lots of thoughts and comments, lots of moving images. The first couple of weeks in post-production is all practical. Logging shots, capturing sequences, transcribing interviews. But all the while little stories, short sequences, are beginning to take shape.
I start to put the sequences together, it’s pedestrian, it’s plodding, it is, in a word poor. But it's still, nonetheless, important. It's important to know what I don’t want. It’s important to have a bench-mark, a point to kick off from, something to rebel against.
So I go off at a tangent and nail a sequence together – forthehellofit. Yay! Then I stick some music under it and BANG! I’m away, it starts to have a shape. I put a voice over it and it’s goose-pimple time, heh heh heh.
Posted by john at August 14, 2007 08:39 PM