Sunday, May 1, 2011

On postproducing Sean

While in the early stages of postproduction, I found one of the most 'natural' feeling methods of editing the video involved focusing on processes with a definable beginning and end, and breaking them up with smaller clips of an implied process or lack of process. So the basic editing process for the earlier part of his day can be reduced to something of an explicit/implicit/explicit/implicit series of images, or perhaps even process/contemplation/process. However, this isn't a hard and fast rule and many clips cut to different stages of one single, explicit process, in order to give it a beginning and end, and often the process is also invoked implicitly. An example of this would be Sean's rather drawn out process of making breakfast - the entire process is begun by his walking into the kitchen and concluded by his leaving it, but it is comprised of several internal processes which often conflict with one another, such the realisation of separation components of the meal. But I consciously edit with the general rule kept in mind, and improvise where required.

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