I had hoped to get cracking straight-away on capturing and cutting the footage for Little Clown but most people were in Edinburgh for the Festival so I couldn’t get hold of the tapes. Instead, on Monday, John and I finished putting together our web-drama idea for Adam’s assignment. We were the last to hand it in.
So Wednesday morning Michael and I finally got underway with the editing. First, before the actual creative storytelling of cutting the film can start, the footage must be logged and captured. We started this process and as normal it took longer than we would have hoped. Complications arose with the logging sheets, timecode errors disrupted capturing and then just when I thought it was all finally on the Editshare it turned out to have messed up all the media unexplainably making it unusable. So eventually we had to start all over again. As always technology when it works is wonderful but when it doesn’t it’s a nightmare; it’s one of those things, I can’t live with it and yet I can’t live without it!
So it was, after two full days of wrestling with the tedium that is technology, at the end of Friday I still hadn’t quite managed to get all the media sorted and captured. However, the advantage of having two editors is that while I was working on sorting the footage Michael could be using the stuff already captured to make a start on the first cut. So, this was not as productive a week as I would have liked, and with quite a bit of frustration towards the end, but it’s all good experience and it will be the holidays soon anyway.
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