Posts Tagged ‘2009’
“Ties that Bind” SF 48HFP Behind-The-Scenes
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Last year, my friends and I competed in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project. It was the first time for all of us, and we were in for quite the weekend. In planning for it, I knew I wanted the experience to be captured on tape (yes, i said “tape”!). This was also the first time the folks I put on this documentary team (Antonio Galvan, Mike Nunez, Cedric Reyes) were in control of a project this big, let alone a documentary at that. I tried my best to give them a crash course in the basics of shooting for the edit, and let them loose.
Fast-forward almost one year later, and now the final segment has been completed. Much props to the whole team, especially to Antonio who was stubborn enough to stick to finishing the edit at a time when the momentum and excitement of the weekend had all but vanished (their original deadline was just a few weeks after that weekend. it was meant to be a quick project for them to get their feet wet… then it became stuck in “post-hell”).
His relentless pursuit of the final edit pushed him to edit a couple of hours each night after work for the past several months, and he successfully turned hours upon hours of (to be quite honest) mundane footage into the memorable story of our experience competing in the 48 Hour Film Project. Not only that, he edited this bad boy using iMovie. iMovie?!!? I don’t even know how to use iMovie!
Please enjoy!
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Also, if you haven’t seen it, here is the final edit of our film, “Ties that Bind”.
Stay tuned this summer, for the dates of the 2010 SF 48 Hour Film Project have just been announced. ROUND 2! The Madness continues…
Producer’s Institute 2009 – the Waiting Room
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
i made the credits! yeah!
“The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies is a ten-day residency for eight creative teams (independent producers or public broadcasters) with a shared goal of developing and prototyping a multi-platform project inspired by, or based on a significant documentary project. ”
I was hired as an assistant editor for Debra Schaffner for a series of videos for the Producer’s Institute. My main responsibility was to shuffle through hours of interview footage to prepare “select” soundbytes that sounded great and could be pieced together for a short video.
One of the documentary projects is called the Waiting Room. It’s an intriguing approach on getting a story heard that it’s not only a documentary film, but also a new way to push for interaction and progress in the community long after the film is screened. It explores the emergency waiting rooms across the country, and proposes the installation of interactive kiosks that will allow emergency room patients to interact with other people with similar injuries. I think it’s an amazing use of today’s technology and answers a need that many people don’t even think about – helping patients and loved ones feel less isolated in what is probably a difficult time in their lives. Here is the finished clip for The Waiting Room: http://blip.tv/bavc/pi09-the-waiting-room-2562347
As an assistant editor, Debra taught me a lot about media organization (a must when you are sifting through hundreds of clips) and tips when in comes to editing dialogue. I’ve been an editor for a long time but I never knew how intricate dialogue editing can be until I worked with Debra. It’s amazing how you can take what seems like 20 minutes of mundane, redundant answers, and then consolidate, switch phrases and words to create a 1 minute soundbyte that not only encapsulates all of the main points but also sounds natural! I know these techniques will prove very useful in my future projects.
