Editing is hard. No scrap that, editing a documentary is hard. I know the story, I knew it before I began filming, but I never would have predicted how hard it has been this semester to find a way to tell this story. But in the words of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." And that is what I have done. I took my stone to where it could be somewhat recognizable to what I was trying to relay to the viewer, but I was unable to enunciate clearly, because of lanes and avenues I would travel down was not pertinent to my sculpture, I had to get back on track.
So I stepped away, forgot about the film and acted like I didn't have one to make. I was no longer a filmmaker. And after a week of not thinking about it, I came back and I found myself on the right track.
The things that are left to do for this film is the title and end sequence, Brian gave me a website for some really awesome fonts and I am hoping to find one that is grungy & elegant at the same time. I gave my files to Deanna and she is working on the sound and then there is music, which I am willing to write myself, but I will not get to any of my other classes or finish any homework, because I really get in the zone when I write music, I will not sleep or eat, and I can't afford to do that now, but if I have to I will, I will just have to be more responsible. My goal is to have everything finished by the end of November, so I can relax a little more going into December.
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