A movie quote mashup I put together.
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A movie quote mashup I put together.
Category: Editing
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My latest side project was a lot of fun. Shot with Canon 60D, T3i, edited in FCPX.
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Directed by: John Schroter
Produced by: Kelsey Elmore
Shot by: John Schroter, Hannah Schroter
Field Audio: Kim Schroter
Edited by: John Schroter
Music:
Shake Yer Body_ Drop-Goblin (Play Me Freebie)
by Play Me Records http://soundcloud.com/playmerecords
A Labor of Love
Some edits are very tough to accomplish – the creative goal is pretty much there, but the way to it is not always so cut and dry. There are a lot of factors for me, but many times it’s simply the sheer number of edits combined with sorting through hours of footage to find the perfect shot for the cut. Other times, it’s the emotional toll the creative process can take. Sometimes it’s a combination of the two.
Without fail, there is always a point in these edits where I’m wondering if I even know what I’m doing, and if maybe I should give it up and become a farmer or something. But I’ll push through because I know that the end product will be something I’m proud of and will hopefully impact others the way it impacted me. Here are a few of my favorite labors of love:
THE CANVAS
I edited everything in Final Cut Pro (including the opening color streaks) using up to 36 layers for some of the custom wipes and transitions I created. I was pretty obsessed with the movie ‘Tron’ at the time, so my music choices were heavily influenced. I also drew inspiration from this very cool promo by FiatUSA. Their transitions are absolutely mind-boggling and I figured if I could pull off even a fraction, I’d be in good shape. Nothing new under the sun, right?:
A STILL SMALL VOICE
Over 50,000 stills were shot for this 90 second stop motion promo for The Cove in Asheville, NC. I whittled it down to about 1,000 before handing portions over to our graphics department for 3D treatment. This piece was custom scored, so I created a click track to edit by. I went with a 5/4 meter to give an unsettled leading or pulling feel to enhance the message. I patterned the rhythm in the style of this song from the movie ‘Once’:
B. REITH – ANTIDOTE
This was one of those ‘lots of content combined with heavy emotion’ one-two punches. The bathtub scene was surprisingly difficult to cut. In a weird way, I began to feel as if I was drowning the character in this vignette. Something strange happens when you put together a series of shots and watch them over and over again. I’m pretty sure it’s a form of brainwashing. No, actually I’m sure it is.
Madrid International Film Festival Official Selection – ‘A Band of Rogues’
So, the very first independent feature I edited last year is an official selection at The Madrid International Film Festival. It was a few months of hard work at home putting the rough scenes together, followed by a very intense yet tremendously fun week with the writer/director, Tim Morgan, the composer/songwriter/audio recordist, Matthew Morgan, the DP/co-writer/colorist, Tommy Bertin, the script supervisor/line producer and all-around nice guy, Brendan Trinkle, as well as regular visits from the cast – Jake Ayers, Emory Goocher, and Luke Williams.
I can’t even express adequately how thankful I am to have been given the opportunity to work on such a wonderful film with such talented and focused guys. I truly hope there are more to follow, because there is nothing like the feeling you get when you are totally in your element.
Win or lose this festival, it is now out in the wild. I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
So, A Band of Rogues, the first independent feature film that I’ve edited, is now an official selection at the Madrid International Film Festival. It was filmed in the fall of 2010 on location in Argentina.
Daniel Camenisch, a mutual friend of writer/director, Tim Morgan, recommended me for the edit. After an initial couple of Skype video chats with the Morgan brothers while they were still wrapping up in Argentina, they decided to bring me on to the team for editing and shipped me two 2TB hard drives containing about 60 hours of raw footage. After a few months of editing nights and weekends and e-mailing rough scenes back and forth with Tim, we followed up with a very intense yet tremendously fun and rewarding week stateside. The goal – take the rough scenes and refine them, complete a rough sound and music mix, and color correct the entire film in order to burn a DVD for the start of festival submission season. All within 7 days. Continue reading “Madrid International Film Festival Official Selection – ‘A Band of Rogues’”